Bug 108575

Summary: CAN-2003-0858 Netlink local DoS: quagga
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: quaggaAssignee: Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
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Version: 3.0CC: jfeeney
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-10-30 10:27:47 UTC
Herbert Xu discovered that a number of netlink applications do not
check the source address of incoming packets, assuming they are coming
from the kernel.  As any local user can send unicast netlink messages
to any process on the system, this can lead to a local denial of
service attack, or other local attacks.

quagga in RHEL3 is affected 

Currently embargoed.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-11-12 14:14:05 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-315.html