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

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Message-ID: <1398886469.815055.1308596913704.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:08:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: inet_diag: fix
 inet_diag_bc_audit()

----- Original Message -----
> [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()

Use CVE-2011-2213.

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

Should this get a seperate ID?

> 
> 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.

-- 
    JB

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