Bug 871848 (CVE-2012-4565)

Summary:	CVE-2012-4565 kernel: net: divide by zero in tcp algorithm illinois
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, anton, bhu, davej, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jneedle, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, mcressma, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, sforsber, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	866514, 866518, 871920, 871921, 871922, 871923
Bug Blocks:	871849

Description Petr Matousek 2012-10-31 14:21:36 UTC

Reading TCP stats when using TCP Illinois congestion control algorithm can cause a divide by zero kernel oops.

An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system.

Proposed upstream patch:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/247871

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Rodrigo Freire of Red Hat.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2012-10-31 17:52:45 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 871923]

Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2012-10-31 18:04:06 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue did affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue did affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 20:04:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2012:1491 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1491.html

Comment 7 John Kacur 2012-12-17 15:16:01 UTC

I believe this is
commit dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531 upstream

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-18 22:36:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1580 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html