From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net,
davem@davemloft.net, security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in fragment handling
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:56:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130620095654.GC698@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620092031.GC2124@breakpoint.cc>
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:20:31AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> wrote:
> > In commit 4cdd3408 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: improve fragmentation
> > handling"), an sk_buff leak was introduced when dealing with reassembled
> > packets by grabbing a reference to the original skb instead of the
> > reassembled skb. At this point, the leak only impacted conntracks with an
> > associated helper.
>
> David, could you please apply this patch directly in case Pablo doesn't
> apply it first? This fixes a remote DoS, so it better hit -stable ASAP.
I'll take care of it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 10:49 [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in fragment handling Phil Oester
2013-06-20 9:20 ` Florian Westphal
2013-06-20 9:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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