Bug 520297

Summary: kernel: ipv4: make ip_append_data() handle NULL routing table [rhel-5.5]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: anton, dhoward, dzickus, emcnabb, hjia, jpirko, jplans, jskrabal, lwang, rkhan
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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: 520299 520300 520301 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Bug Blocks: 520299, 520300, 520301, 525215, 526775, 527436, 533192    

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-08-30 11:19:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
Add a check in ip_append_data() for NULL *rtp to prevent future bugs in callers from being exploitable.

http://git.kernel.org/linus/788d908f2879a17e5f80924f3da2e23f1034482d
Comment 8 Don Zickus 2009-10-06 19:39:06 UTC 
in kernel-2.6.18-168.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

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Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 06:54:29 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 therefore 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-2010-0178.html