Bug 457019 - pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else [mrg-1]
Summary: pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else [mrg-1]
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Classification: Red Hat
Component: realtime-kernel
Version: 1.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: 1.0.3
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Assignee: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
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Depends On: 457018
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-29 08:40 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2008-10-07 19:21 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-07 19:21:29 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0857 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-10-07 19:18:59 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-29 08:40:49 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #457018 +++

Description of problem:
We need to unshare the skb first as otherwise pskb_may_pull may write to a
shared skb which could be bad.
Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-29 08:41:04 UTC 
Proposed upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=bc6cffd177f9266af38dba96a2cea06c1e7ff932
Comment 2 Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 2008-08-05 18:45:48 UTC 
Queued for -76.
Comment 4 David Sommerseth 2008-09-23 08:29:31 UTC 
Verified that the patch in upstream commit bc6cffd177f9266af38dba96a2cea06c1e7ff932 is included in mrg-rt-2.6.24.7-81
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2008-10-07 19:21:29 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 therefore 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-2008-0857.html
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