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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, security@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jaco@kroon.co.za
Subject: Re: [PATCH] infinite recursion in netlink
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:59:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070425195941.GA11699@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070425183856.GA6028@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:38:56PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Reply to NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP messages were misrouted back to kernel,
> which resulted in infinite recursion and stack overflow.
> 
> The bug is present in all kernel versions since the feature appeared.

Any hint on when this feature appeared so that we can notify the distros
for older releases?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 18:38 [PATCH] infinite recursion in netlink Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-04-25 19:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-04-25 20:05   ` David Miller
2007-04-25 22:21   ` Jaco Kroon
2007-04-25 20:09 ` David Miller
2007-04-25 20:15 ` [Security] " Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 20:18   ` David Miller
2007-04-26  5:29   ` Greg KH
2007-04-26  5:32     ` David Miller
2007-04-26  5:44       ` Greg KH
2007-04-26  5:48         ` Greg KH
2007-04-26  5:52           ` Chris Wright
2007-04-26  6:26             ` Chris Wright
2007-04-26  6:31               ` David Miller
2007-04-26  6:51                 ` Greg KH
2007-04-26  7:02                   ` David Miller
2007-04-26  5:37     ` Chris Wright
2007-04-26 15:44     ` [PATCH] [IPV4] nl_fib_lookup: Initialise res.r before fib_res_put(&res) Sergey Vlasov
2007-04-26 16:11       ` Alexey Kuznetsov

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