Bug 987633 (CVE-2013-4163) - CVE-2013-4163 Kernel: net: panic while appending data to a corked IPv6 socket in ip6_append_data_mtu
Summary: CVE-2013-4163 Kernel: net: panic while appending data to a corked IPv6 socket...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4163
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 987636 987638 987639 994346
Blocks: 984924
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Reported: 2013-07-23 19:32 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-11 23:48 UTC (History)
27 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-06-10 05:26:12 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1264 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2013-09-16 21:01:17 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2013-07-23 19:32:27 UTC 
Linux kernel built with the IPv6 networking support is vulnerable to a crash
while appending data to an IPv6 socket with UDP_CORKED option set. UDP_CORK
enables accumulating data and sending it as single datagram.

An unprivileged user/program could use this flaw to crash the kernel, resulting in local DoS.

Upstream fix:
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 -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/75a493e60ac4bbe2e977e7129d6d8cbb0dd236be


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Hannes Frederic Sowa for reporting this issue.
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2013-07-23 19:41:32 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 987639]
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2013-07-23 19:46:17 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue affects the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this issue.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-16 17:14:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:1264 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1264.html
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