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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:01:15 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE-2009-0778 kernel: rt_cache leak
Reported by Hector Herrera:
A "REJECT" route in a software router (ip_forward = 1) based on CentOS
5.2 will cause the kernel to lose track of cached routes. Once the
number of allocated route cache objects (as indicated by the value of
ip_dst_cache in /proc/slabinfo) reaches the value of
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size - 1, the kernel will complain with a
'dst cache overflow' errors for every received packet and all network
connectivity will cease.
But was introduced in upstream commit 8b7817f3a95. It was later fixed in
upstream commit 7c0ecc4c4f.
Workaround:
- either remove or replace the "REJECT" route with a different
alternative such as 'ip route add 10.10.0.0/16 via 127.0.0.1'.
- using iptables.
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0778
Thanks, Eugene
--
Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team
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