oss-security - CVE Request: UDP checksum DoS

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Message-ID: <20150630185021.GA29895@eldamar.local>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:50:21 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: OSS Security Mailinglist <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: benh@...ian.org, CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: CVE Request: UDP checksum DoS

Hi

AFAICS there wasn't a CVE requested for the following:

https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/605854034260426753

> remote DoS via flood of UDP packets with invalid checksums

It has been fixed in v4.1-rc7:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=beb39db59d14990e401e235faf66a6b9b31240b0

Could you assign a CVE for this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
Salvatore

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