Bug 151804

Summary: CAN-2005-0449 Possible remote Oops/firewall bypass - kABI breaker - ipf
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: davej, jbaron, peterm, riel, tburke
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Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050124,source=vendorsec
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Proposed patch from Dave Miller for RHEL2.1 none

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-03-22 15:46:41 UTC
This issue now is known to affect linux-2.4

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #147468 +++

vendor-sec made us aware of a security relevant problem yesterday (remote
opps/firewall bypass) in the netdev code. 

  http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@41f8843a8ZMCNuP3meYAYnnXd3CO_g

This is the relevant thread:

  http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-01/msg01036.html

Passed to PeterM for investigation, the patch breaks kABI.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-22 15:46:42 UTC
Created attachment 112217 [details]
Proposed patch from Dave Miller for RHEL2.1

Comment 2 Jim Paradis 2005-04-19 17:45:18 UTC
A fix for this problem has been committed to the RHEL21 source pool for kernel
version 2.4.18-e.56


Comment 3 John Flanagan 2005-04-28 15:10:07 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-2005-284.html