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Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message
authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Thu, 31 May 2012 14:40:06 +0000 (16:40 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:03:19 +0000 (09:03 -0700)
commitc84299b8ddb3de60ac857aee396d709346eed27f
tree3ac4148b7d933ef0a404417bd7cf2d933e897b8d
parentff74ae50f01ee67764564815c023c362c87ce18b
Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message

commit bcc2c9c3fff859e0eb019fe6fec26f9b8eba795c upstream.

The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be
certain that the connector message is originated from kernel.

CVE-2012-2669

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c