[ 070/135] af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]

2012-09-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea ] Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a

[ 070/135] af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]

2012-09-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet eduma...@google.com [ Upstream commit e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea ] Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink