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Bug#812207: CVE-2016-0728



On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:23 -0800, Zachary Loafman wrote:
> Can this issue be treated with high importance?

You would have got a faster response if you had reported the bug
against a real package name in the first place.

> Right now, there is no
> version of jessie-stable or wheezy-backports which is both safe from this
> AUFS hang and safe from CVE-2016-0728, which has a public exploit. The
> current recommendation on https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/18180 is
> to downgrade to a kernel version which is vulnerable to this CVE (I
> believe).

You can possibly mitigate this by using systemtap to disable use of the
keyctl system call, if you don't run anything that needs it (such as an
NFS client).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less.

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