Bug 984664 (CVE-2013-4125)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4125 kernel: ipv6: BUG_ON in fib6_add_rt2node()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, anton, bhu, davej, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jkurik, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mcressma, npajkovs, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-07-15 16:19:28 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	984667, 984668
Bug Blocks:	984673

Description Petr Matousek 2013-07-15 16:16:51 UTC

If two router advertisment speaker announce seperate default gateways with infinite timeout the kernel currently packs these routes together into an ecmp route set. If one of the RA speaker now changes the advertised expiration to a lower value and a third route with infinite timeout pops up we end up with a BUG_ON.

Remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.

Fixed by:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=307f2fb95e9b96b3577916e73d92e104f8f26494

Introduced by:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=51ebd3181572af8d5076808dab2682d800f6da5d

Introduced in upstream version:
v3.7-rc1

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Hannes Frederic Sowa for reporting this issue.

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-07-15 16:19:28 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2013-07-15 16:26:04 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 984668]