Bug 649693 (CVE-2010-3873) - CVE-2010-3873 kernel: memory corruption in X.25 facilities parsing
Summary: CVE-2010-3873 kernel: memory corruption in X.25 facilities parsing
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2010-3873
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-04 10:19 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-11 12:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 22:32:45 UTC
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-04 10:19:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
Due to bad parsing of malformed X.25 facilities, a remote attacker can
cause a kernel panic due to heap corruption (assuming both parties are
communicating using X.25).

Reference:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145786.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145873.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2010-11-08 20:16:53 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include
support for CCITT X.25 Packet Layer.
Comment 2 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-22 13:21:39 UTC 
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/a6331d6f9a4298173b413cf99a40cc86a9d92c37
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