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Bug 170774

Summary: CVE-2005-2973 ipv6 infinite loop
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Ernie Petrides <petrides>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: davem, lwang, petrides, security-response-team
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: reported=20051014,source=vendorsec,impact=important,public=20051004
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0140 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-01-19 16:01:15 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 168424    

Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-10-28 02:21:27 UTC
Patch successfully tested and posted for internal review on 27-Oct-2005.

Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2005-11-03 01:52:55 UTC
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.8.EL).


Comment 5 Ernie Petrides 2006-01-11 23:33:46 UTC
A fix for this problem has also been committed to the RHEL3 E7
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL).


Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-01-19 16:01:15 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 the 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-2006-0140.html