Bug 192634 - CVE-2006-2444 SNMP NAT netfilter memory corruption
Summary: CVE-2006-2444 SNMP NAT netfilter memory corruption
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Don Howard
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=vendorsec,repo...
Depends On:
Blocks: 143573
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-22 08:55 UTC by Marcel Holtmann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0580
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-07-13 11:56:07 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0580 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security update 2006-07-13 04:00:00 UTC

Description Marcel Holtmann 2006-05-22 08:55:29 UTC 
The SNMP NAT helper netfilter can cause a memory corruption. The corruption can
be triggered remotely when the ip_nat_snmp_basic module is loaded and traffic on
port 161 or 162 is NATed.

Proposed upstream fix can be found here:

https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2006-May/024422.html
Comment 4 Mike Gahagan 2006-07-12 19:41:30 UTC 
patch is in, there doesn't look to be a way to reproduce the bug itself reliably.
Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-07-13 11:56:07 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-2006-0580.html
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