Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message
authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Thu, 31 May 2012 14:40:06 +0000 (16:40 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 4 Jul 2012 04:44:05 +0000 (05:44 +0100)
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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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