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Message-ID: <4EAAC8F9.30102@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:23:37 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Multiple remote denial of service
in Linux bridge networking code 2.6.37-3.0
On 10/28/2011 02:06 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linux kernel 2.6.37 introduced with this commit
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=462fb2af9788a82a534f8184abfde31574e1cfa0
> several regressions that be used to trigger remote denial of service attacks when
> bridging is in use.
>
> Reporter thread is on:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/191713
>
> Fixes are in git commits:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=f8e9881c2aef1e982e5abc25c046820cd0b7cf64
> In 2.6.39
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=66944e1c5797562cebe2d1857d46dff60bf9a69e
> In 2.6.39
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=c65353daf137dd41f3ede3baf62d561fca076228
> In 3.0
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=10949550bd1e50cc91c0f5085f7080a44b0871fe
> In 3.0
> So it can be considered fixed with Linux kernel 3.0.
> Thanks to Eugene for looking up the commit ids.
>
> I think it just needs one CVE, as it was one introducing patch.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
Please use CVE-2011-4087 for this issue.
--
-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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