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Re: Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem.
From: Greg KH <greg () kroah com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:51:40 +0200
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:49:14PM +1000, Wade Mealing wrote:
Gday, Syzkaller/syzbot found a use-after-free bug in the cryptographic subsystem of the Linux kernel [1], that can be used to panic the system and possibly escalate privileges.
Are we seriously now going to be assigning cves to everything that syzbot finds? If so, great, this is going to be fun! If not, why this specific patch? What makes it specia from the hundreds of other syzbot finds that have been fixed (and not fixed yet)? This seems like an odd choice, given:
The bug was introduced in commit 72548b093ee3, and has been addressed in b32a7dc8aef1882fbf983eb354837488cc9d54dc, a reproducer is available on the tail end of syzbots email to kernel list ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/27/866 ). Most RHEL kernels are not affected as they do not have the feature, but it does affect the kernel-alt package (the 4.11 based kernel for 64-bit ARM , IBM POWER9 (little endian ) and IBM z Systems ).
So this was introduced in 4.14 which was released Nov 12, 2017, and fixed in 4.14.8 which was released on Dec 20, 2017. A very small window, don't you think. And one that happened almost a year ago. If RHEL is not exposed, why does Red Hat care about this? Who cares about it? Anyone running a 4.14.y kernel has had this fixed for a very long time ago, and anyone not running a 4.14.y kernel is not affected. Again, I'm really confused why this was chosen for a CVE here. Care to explain it a bit better? Is it because you have to have a CVE for every bugfix in the RHEL kernel-alt package (something that I would love to see happen for various other reasons...) thanks, greg k-h
Current thread:
- Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem. Wade Mealing (Aug 27)
- Re: Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem. Greg KH (Aug 28)
- Re: Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem. Florian Weimer (Aug 28)
- Re: Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem. Wade Mealing (Sep 03)
- Re: Linux kernel: CVE-2018-14619 kernel: crash (possible privesc) in kernel crypto subsystem. Greg KH (Aug 28)