Bug 151805

Summary: CAN-2005-0449 Possible remote Oops/firewall bypass - kABI breaker
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: David Miller <davem>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: barryn, davej, jbaron, jparadis, peterm, petrides, riel, tburke
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Proposed patch from Dave Miller for RHEL3 none

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-03-22 15:48:32 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 15:48:32 UTC 
Created attachment 112218 [details]
Proposed patch from Dave Miller for RHEL3
Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-04-14 00:20:47 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 E5
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.0.3.EL).
Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2005-04-16 01:08:40 UTC 
A fix for this problem has also been committed to the RHEL3 U5
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.EL).
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-04-22 20:17:38 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-2005-293.html
Comment 5 Tim Powers 2005-05-18 13:29:21 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-2005-294.html