Re: Re: CVE-2016-8655 Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root)

[Brad Spengler <spender () grsecurity net>]

4.8.12 doesn't have the fix included, despite being released on the same
day the commit was merged into net/ and despite the advance notice in
private via security () kernel org.  It's currently in the net/ "stable" queue
which operates seperately from the rest of the kernel.  It'll be merged
whenever that process plays itself out.

-Brad

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Hanno B??ck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kernel 4.8.12, which has the fix you pointed out included,
> however:
>
> > You can also run it with "crash" as the first argument to force a
> > panic.
>
> running your code with the "crash" parameter reliably panics this
> kernel.
> This doesn't seem right. Is this an incomplete or nonworking fix?
>
> -- 
> Hanno B??ck
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>
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