Re: [PATCH v1] xfrm: add forgotten nla_policy for XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH

[Lin Ma]

Hello Leon,

> 
> This CVE is a joke, you need to be root to execute this attack.
> 

Not really, this call routine only checks

  if (!netlink_net_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
    return -EPERM;

and any users in most vendor kernel can create a network namespace to
get such privilege and trigger this bug.

> Anyway change is ok.
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards
Lin