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Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?
From: Mark J Cox <mjc () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:18:11 +0100 (BST)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=920fc941a9617f95ccb283037fe6f8a38d95bb69 This will at least hang the networking of the system if triggered. According to Karsten Keil just ESP fragment packets need to be accepted by the kernel to trigger the condition. We think this might be true for all 2.6 kernels (ever since esp.c got added).
Quick response (burried today) but I think this is already allocated CVE-2007-6282
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:NNop-SbiE4EJ:www.mail-archive.com/netdev%40vger.kernel.org/msg62480.html+CVE-2007-6282&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 Mark
Current thread:
- security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Steven M. Christey (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Mark J Cox (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Steven M. Christey (Apr 30)