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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, laforge@netfilter.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, arjanv@redhat.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: Remote DoS vulnerability in Linux kernel 2.6.x (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:42:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040630144230.1d52864b.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0406301507320.32316-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:11:25 -0400 (EDT)
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> wrote:

> FYI, I have audited options parsing code in TCP, IPv4 input and Netfilter 
> for any similar problems and not found any.  Further review would be 
> useful (I have not looked at the IPv6 header parsing for example).

I can't find any other cases.

This bug only came up because up the huge change Rusty and Harald did
to make these modules not access the SKB header data directly, and
instead to use local on-stack copies and skb_copy_bits().

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-30 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30 18:24 Remote DoS vulnerability in Linux kernel 2.6.x (fwd) James Morris
2004-06-30 19:11 ` James Morris
2004-06-30 21:42   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-07-01  9:10     ` Harald Welte
2004-07-01  8:59 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik

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