Bug 911473 (CVE-2013-0290)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0290 kernel: net: infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram()
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, npajkovs, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, sforsber, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	911476, 911478, 911479
Bug Blocks:	916583

Description Petr Matousek 2013-02-15 06:47:49 UTC

A flaw was found in the way __skb_recv_datagram() processed skbs with no payload when MSG_PEEK was requested. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to cause local denial of service.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=77c1090

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/310

Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-02-15 07:02:42 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 911479]

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2013-02-15 07:05:19 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-02-18 07:02:15 UTC

kernel-3.7.8-202.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-02-24 08:37:09 UTC

kernel-3.7.9-101.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-11 18:40:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:0622 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0622.html