Patch "dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     dccp-cve-2017-8824-use-after-free-in-dccp-code.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mohamed Ghannam <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:58:35 +0000
Subject: dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code

From: Mohamed Ghannam <[email protected]>

commit 69c64866ce072dea1d1e59a0d61e0f66c0dffb76 upstream.

Whenever the sock object is in DCCP_CLOSED state,
dccp_disconnect() must free dccps_hc_tx_ccid and
dccps_hc_rx_ccid and set to NULL.

---
 net/dccp/proto.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ int dccp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int
 {
 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 	struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
+	struct dccp_sock *dp = dccp_sk(sk);
 	int err = 0;
 	const int old_state = sk->sk_state;
 

@@ -278,6 +279,10 @@ int dccp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int
 		sk->sk_err = ECONNRESET;
 
 	dccp_clear_xmit_timers(sk);
+	ccid_hc_rx_delete(dp->dccps_hc_rx_ccid, sk);
+	ccid_hc_tx_delete(dp->dccps_hc_tx_ccid, sk);
+	dp->dccps_hc_rx_ccid = NULL;
+	dp->dccps_hc_tx_ccid = NULL;
 
 	__skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
 	__skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_write_queue);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/dccp-cve-2017-8824-use-after-free-in-dccp-code.patch