Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: patch 4.8 "net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send" | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:50:17 +0100 |
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On 01/08/2017, 03:28 PM, Bronek Kozicki wrote: > Hello, > > any particular reason why this fix > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79dc7e3f1cd323be4c81aa1a94faa1b3ed987fb2 > was missed from stable 4.8 line? Apparently the bug being fixed has its > own https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9919
The patch is marked as: Fixes: 5d41ce29e ("net: icmp6_send should use dst dev to determine L3 domain")
and that is only in 4.9. So there seems to be a little point backporting to older kernels.
thanks, -- js suse labs
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