ACK/cmt: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][B] CVE-2018-19854 - Crypto API info leak

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2019-01-25 02:08:07 , Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-19854.html
> 
>  An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.3.
>  crypto_report_one() and related functions in crypto/crypto_user.c (the
>  crypto user configuration API) do not fully initialize structures that are
>  copied to userspace, potentially leaking sensitive memory to user programs.
>  NOTE: this is a CVE-2013-2547 regression but with easier exploitability
>  because the attacker does not need a capability (however, the system must
>  have the CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER kconfig option).
> 
> After adjusting the target filename of the patch, this was a clean cherry-pick
> to Bionic. I've only boot tested this change in the Bionic kernel.
> 
> Tyler
>

There's some irony in this, isn't there? 

Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>