Bug 1178826 (CVE-2014-9428)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9428 kernel: remote denial of service via batman-adv module
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, aquini, bhu, davej, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1178833
Bug Blocks:	1178832

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 14:19:08 UTC

A remote denial of service (kernel crash) when batman-adv module is in use was reported at [1].

Upstream commit that fixes this issue can be found here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5b6698b0e4a37053de35cc24ee695b98a7eb712b

[1]: https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-November/012561.html

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, as they did not include support for the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 14:24:33 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1178833]