Bug 1637504 (CVE-2018-17977) - CVE-2018-17977 kernel: Mishandled interactions among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets resulting in a denial of service
Summary: CVE-2018-17977 kernel: Mishandled interactions among XFRM Netlink messages, I...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-17977
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: 1637505
Blocks: 1637555
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-09 11:26 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2024-10-24 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-05-20 21:18:34 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-10-09 11:26:50 UTC 
It was found that the Linux kernel mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang).

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/15
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-10-09 11:28:27 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1637505]
Comment 6 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2019-05-27 20:27:55 UTC 
Hi

Before the files disapeared, was someone able to gather them?

Was this issue ever adressed upstream? Do you have more information on the fix for tracking the status?

Thanks already in advance if you can share more on it. I'm trying to determine the status for Debian in https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17977 for it.

Regards,
Salvatore
Comment 7 Wade Mealing 2019-05-28 06:30:22 UTC 
Salvatore , Emailed you a response.
Comment 8 Wade Mealing 2019-06-25 01:15:18 UTC 
Statement:

At this time this flaws reproduction environment is considered too extraordinary and will rarely be a feasable attack vector for most attackers.  The IPSEC connection between connected hosts is a somewhat privileged operation with a shared secret between systems,   Red Hat will unlikely fix this issue due to its significant setup complexity and unlikely configuration.
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-20 21:18:34 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17977
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