oss-security - CVE request: kernel: inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc

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Message-ID: <4DFEA775.2070909@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:50:45 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit()

[PATCH] inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit()

A malicious user or buggy application can inject code and trigger an
infinite loop in inet_diag_bc_audit()

Also make sure each instruction is aligned on 4 bytes boundary, to avoid
unaligned accesses.

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/197206/focus=197386
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/100857/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714536

Thanks, Eugene

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