Re: CVE request -- linux kernel: overlay: fix permission checking for setattr

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> A flaw was found in the overlay filesystem of the Linux kernel which allows
> an unprivileged user to change attributes of the files in the overlay,
> particularly allowing access to root-only-accessible files like '/etc/shadow'.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291329

> > A security issue was fixed in kernel 4.4-rc4 resolving the bypassing
> > of filesystem permission checks in overlayfs during the initial
> > copy_up.

> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=acff81ec2c79492b180fade3c2894425cd35a545

> > Having these two ->setattr() (one to set verbatim copy of metadata,
> > another to do what overlayfs ->setattr() had been asked to do in the
> > first place) combined is where it breaks.

Use CVE-2015-8660.

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