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* [patch 0/8 2.6.32] CVE-2010-4251: packet backlog can get too large
@ 2011-11-13 20:13 Dan Carpenter
  2011-11-13 20:17 ` [patch 2/8 2.6.32] udp: use limited socket backlog Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-11-13 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, netdev, Zhu Yi, Eric Dumazet

I'm still very new to this whole -stable business so please let me
know if I do somethig wrong.

This patch series is to address CVE-2010-4251 for the 2.6.32 stable
kernel.  Here is the CVE summary:

 "The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel
  before 2.6.34 does not properly manage a backlog of received
  packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
  (memory consumption) by sending a large amount of network traffic,
  as demonstrated by netperf UDP tests."

[patch 1/8] introduces sk_add_backlog_limited()
[patch 2-7/8] change each network protocol to use sk_add_backlog_limited()
	where appropriate.
[patch 8/8] renames sk_add_backlog() to __sk_add_backlog() and
	sk_add_backlog_limited() to sk_add_backlog().

The patches mostly apply without changes.  The exception is:
[patch 2/8] udp: use limited socket backlog
Then the rename [patch 8/8] needed to be changed as well to match.

regards,
dan carpenter

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2011-11-13 20:19 ` [patch 8/8 2.6.32] net: backlog functions rename Dan Carpenter
2011-11-13 20:58 ` [patch 0/8 2.6.32] CVE-2010-4251: packet backlog can get too large David Miller
2011-11-13 23:29   ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-14  3:24     ` David Miller
2011-11-14 18:11       ` Greg KH

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