Bug 1355655 - CVE-2016-6198 kernel: vfs: missing detection of hardlinks in vfs_rename() on overlayfs [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2016-6198 kernel: vfs: missing detection of hardlinks in vfs_rename() on ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 24
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2016-6198
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-12 07:31 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2016-07-12 11:12 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-12 11:12:14 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-07-12 07:31:15 UTC
This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
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the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
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Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-07-12 07:31:24 UTC
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1355654,1355655

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for CVE-2016-6198

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

======

Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2016-07-12 11:12:14 UTC
The commits that fix this:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2d3ca

are both included in the 4.6 kernel release.  f23-rawhide are on 4.6.4 or newer.  F22 is going EOL in a week and won't get the fix.


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