Bug 539435 (CVE-2009-4005)

Summary: CVE-2009-4005 kernel: isdn: hfc_usb: fix read buffer overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: davej, dhoward, jolsa, jskrabal, kyle, lwang, pmatouse, rcvalle, tcallawa, vgoyal
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-11-20 06:55:04 UTC
The collect_rx_frame function in drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted HDLC packet that arrives over ISDN and triggers a buffer under-read.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/286e633ef0ff5bb63c07b4516665da8004966fec

Reference:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4005

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2009-12-08 22:52:32 UTC
Fixed in upstream kernels 2.6.27.40 and 2.6.31.7

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-12-10 22:54:27 UTC
kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-12-11 18:26:07 UTC
kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2010-02-02 20:41:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0076 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0076.html