Bug 1735620 (CVE-2007-6762) - CVE-2007-6762 kernel: buffer overflow in doi_def->tags[] array
Summary: CVE-2007-6762 kernel: buffer overflow in doi_def->tags[] array
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2007-6762
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1735621
Blocks: Embargoed1735622
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Reported: 2019-08-01 07:31 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-11-22 05:58:35 UTC

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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-01 07:31:15 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel, there is an off-by-one bug in net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c where it is possible to overflow the doi_def->tags[] array.

Reference:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a2f11c227bdf292b3a2900ad04139d301b56ac4
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2a2f11c227bdf292b3a2900ad04139d301b56ac4
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-01 07:31:44 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1735621]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-08-01 12:27:08 UTC 
This was fixed in Fedora over a decade ago.
Comment 3 Rohit Keshri 2019-11-22 05:57:41 UTC 
Statement:

No shipping versions of the kernel are affected.
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