Bug 1178826 (CVE-2014-9428) - CVE-2014-9428 kernel: remote denial of service via batman-adv module
Summary: CVE-2014-9428 kernel: remote denial of service via batman-adv module
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-9428
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1178833
Blocks: 1178832
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Reported: 2015-01-05 14:19 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-05 14:28:32 UTC
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 14:19:08 UTC 
A remote denial of service (kernel crash) when batman-adv module is in use was reported at [1].

Upstream commit that fixes this issue can be found here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5b6698b0e4a37053de35cc24ee695b98a7eb712b

[1]: https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-November/012561.html

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, as they did not include support for the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol.
Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 14:24:33 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1178833]
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