Bug#321401: CAN-2005-2456: Array index overflow in xfrm code

2005-08-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: important
Tags: security patch

An overflow in sock->sk_policy could possibly be exploited as DoS or
potential execution of arbitrary code. Please see
http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg00520.html
for details. A fix has been comitted into the git repo, please see
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a4f1bac62564049ea4718c4624b0fadc9f597c84

This has been assigned CAN-2005-2456.

Cheers,
Moritz

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Bug#321401: CAN-2005-2456: Array index overflow in xfrm code

2005-08-05 Thread Horms
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: important
> Tags: security patch
> 
> An overflow in sock->sk_policy could possibly be exploited as DoS or
> potential execution of arbitrary code. Please see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg00520.html
> for details. A fix has been comitted into the git repo, please see
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a4f1bac62564049ea4718c4624b0fadc9f597c84
> 
> This has been assigned CAN-2005-2456.

Thanks, for Sarge 2.6.8 appears to be vulnerable,
and 2.4.27 does not. I have applied the patch into
SVN for 2.6.8.

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Bug#321401: CAN-2005-2456: Array index overflow in xfrm code

2005-08-08 Thread Horms
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:58:12PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: security patch
> > 
> > An overflow in sock->sk_policy could possibly be exploited as DoS or
> > potential execution of arbitrary code. Please see
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg00520.html
> > for details. A fix has been comitted into the git repo, please see
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a4f1bac62564049ea4718c4624b0fadc9f597c84
> > 
> > This has been assigned CAN-2005-2456.
> 
> Thanks, for Sarge 2.6.8 appears to be vulnerable,
> and 2.4.27 does not. I have applied the patch into
> SVN for 2.6.8.

Correction, 2.4.27 does seem vulnerable, I am fixing it now.

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