Bug 518034 (CVE-2009-2698)

Summary:	CVE-2009-2698 kernel: udp socket NULL ptr dereference
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	atangrin, bressers, davem, dhoward, herbert.xu, jolsa, lsmid, lwang, rkhan, security-response-team, sgrubb, tburke, vgoyal
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Bug Depends On:	518040, 518041, 518042, 518043, 518044, 518047, 519701, 519703
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Description Mark J. Cox 2009-08-18 14:53:06 UTC

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes, Google Security Team reported that Kernels <= 2.6.18.8 are vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference issue when using MSG_MORE on udp sockets.

Fixed upstream already by:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e0c14f49d6b393179f423abbac47f85618d3d46

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google
Security Team for responsibly reporting this flaw.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-24 08:12:38 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1222 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1222.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-24 08:29:52 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2009:1223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1223.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-27 20:02:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2009:1233 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1233.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-22 14:58:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Z Stream

Via RHSA-2009:1457 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1457.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-30 14:59:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Z Stream

Via RHSA-2009:1469 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1469.html