Re: CVE request for a fixed bug existed in all versions of linux kernel from KeenTeam

[Vasily Kulikov <segoon () openwall com>]

Hi,

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 15:53 +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 06:31:12PM +0800, Wen Xu wrote:
> > The bug exists in all versions of linux kernel.
>
> "All" as in "all upstream versions that contain the feature at all
> (3.0+), and likely some backports".  It appears the bug got introduced
> in Vasily's forward-porting of the functionality to newer 2.6.x kernels
> before it finally got merged in this thread:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/13/382

I confirm this bug was introduced during forward-porting of the ICMP
patch to the upstream kernel.  The bug is not present in Owl's version
of the patch.

Thanks,

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