Bug 142730

Summary: CAN-2004-1016 CMSG validation checks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jim Paradis <jparadis>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 2.1CC: peterm, riel
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-12-13 14:04:36 UTC
isec.pl reported to vendor-sec on 20041125 a DoS caused
by scm_send with exploiter that they say affects 2.4.28
Also reported by Georgi Guninski on Dec08

Fixed upstream in 2.6.10-rc3 and 2.4-bk.

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@41b76e94BsJKm8jhVtyDat9ZM1dXXg
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@41b77314ZtyUzWzZFzaCRGoQc6hKcw

Both changesets required.  See bug 142729 for reproducer etc

Comment 1 Jim Paradis 2004-12-21 18:40:39 UTC
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL2.1 E7
patch pool (in kernel version 2.4.9-e.58)

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-01-21 15:37:25 UTC
An advisory 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-2005-016.html