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CVE-2009-2903 kernel: appletalk: denial of service when handling IP tunnelled over DDP datagrams
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:57:02 +0800
The check for the ipddpN device in the handle_ip_over_ddp() function returns -NODEV to the atalk_rcv() function when the device does not exist. The atalk_rcv() function then directly returns that value to its caller. There is a missing call to kfree_skb() in these unaccepted IP-DDP datagram that can exhaust the kernel memory eventually. It affects Linux hosts with appletalk and ipddp modules loaded, that are attached to the same link. Thanks to Mark Smith for reporting this issue to us.
net-next-2.6 commit:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ffcfb8db540ff879c2a85bf7e404954281443414
Possible mitigation method: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2903#c3 Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2903 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/networking/ipddp.txt;h=661a5558dd8e928f15771c07ef34b3ee9cb81e57;hb=HEAD Greg, this should go to -stable. Willy, this affects upstream 2.4 I believe. Thanks, Eugene
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