Bug 346441 (CVE-2007-1730)

Summary:	CVE-2007-1730 kernel dccp memory disclosure
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gnichols, johnp, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kreilly, rt-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-1730
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Bug Depends On:	346451, 346461
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-10-23 08:14:31 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-1730 to the following vulnerability:

Integer signedness error in the DCCP support in the do_dccp_getsockopt function in net/dccp/proto.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and later allows local users to read kernel memory or cause a denial of service (oops) via a negative optlen value.

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/463934/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464144/100/0/threaded
http://marc.info/?l=dccp&m=117509584316267&w=2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-464-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23162
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1143
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017820
http://secunia.com/advisories/25392
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2482
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33274

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2007-10-23 08:22:59 UTC

upstream fix
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=39ebc0276bada8bb70e067cb6d0eb71839c0fb08