Bug 192635 – CVE-2006-1857 SCTP HB-ACK chunk overflow

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Bug 192635 - CVE-2006-1857 SCTP HB-ACK chunk overflow

Summary:	CVE-2006-1857 SCTP HB-ACK chunk overflow

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Neil Horman
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	181409
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Reported:	2006-05-22 06:00 EDT by Marcel Holtmann
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0575
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-08-10 19:22:11 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2006:0575	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4	2006-08-10 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Marcel Holtmann 2006-05-22 06:00:59 EDT

If SCTP receives a badly formatted HB-ACK chunk, it is possible that we may
access invalid memory and potentially have a buffer overflow.

The upstream fix can be found here:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd2d1c6f2958d027e4591ca5d2a04dfe36ca6512

Comment 1 Marcel Holtmann 2006-05-22 06:06:55 EDT

This is the link for the real upstream fix:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a601266e4f3c479790f373c2e3122a766d123652

Comment 6 Jason Baron 2006-06-19 16:27:30 EDT

committed in stream U4 build 39.1. A test kernel with this patch is available
from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/

Comment 8 Mike Gahagan 2006-07-14 16:40:32 EDT

Patch is in -42.EL.

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-10 19:22:17 EDT

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-2006-0575.html

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