Re: CVE-2009-1265 kernel: af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size

[Willy Tarreau <w () 1wt eu>]

Hi Eugene,

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:58:55PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> {nr,rose,x25}_sendmsg() functions need to have sanity checks on the
> packet size, otherwise the sizes can wrap and end up sending garbage.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10423
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/83e0bbcbe2145f160fbaa109b0439dae7f4a38a9
> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1265
>
> This affects both 2.4.x and 2.6.x if CONFIG_{NETROM,ROSE,X25} are enabled.

I already have it in my queue, just did not have time to merge it yet.
Thanks for the reminder anyway, I really appreciate it ;-)

Willy