Bug 1824925 - CVE-2020-11725 kernel: improper handling of private_size*count multiplication due to count=info->owner typo [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2020-11725 kernel: improper handling of private_size*count multiplication...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2020-11725
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-04-16 16:46 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-05-14 18:12 UTC (History)
20 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-05-14 18:12:52 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-04-16 16:46:58 UTC
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Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-04-16 16:47:01 UTC
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Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2020-05-14 18:12:52 UTC
"The CVE report is simply wrong.  info->owner is used intentionally for
this specific API to add a user-space control.  For the normal kernel
kctls, the field is used indeed for storing the pid, but but the
user-space kctl addition API usage is an exception.

You can see the another use of info->count of field in the very same
function at a later point and find it has a different meaning.

The CVE should be disputed."

Given the above from upstream, closing as wontfix. If upstream changes their mind and accepts a patch, it will of course be included.


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