From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net: sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:06:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54385855.10401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5437AF27.2030506@gentoo.org>
On 10/10/2014 12:04 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
...
> If I am reading correctly, this crash can only be triggered by actually getting
> through the SCTP handshake, then sending this specially-crafted ASCONF chunk?
> Meaning a blind nmap scan using this tactic against a random netblock wouldn't
> just randomly knock servers offline? This would seem to reduce the attack
> surface a quite bit by requiring the remote endpoint to actually respond.
Sorry, have been on travel almost whole day ... yes, handshake has to be
completed before that. So a scan/probe would need to establish a connection
first and ASCONF would need to be supported.
> Is there a CVE # for this?
CVE-2014-3673
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-10 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-09 20:55 [PATCH net 0/3] SCTP fixes Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net 1/3] net: sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-10 10:04 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-10-10 22:06 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2014-10-10 14:48 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net 2/3] net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate " Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-10 15:39 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-10 22:02 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-12 1:42 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-12 7:15 ` Vladislav Yasevich
2014-10-12 23:25 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-15 2:58 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-15 23:13 ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-15 7:51 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net 3/3] net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing Daniel Borkmann
2014-10-14 16:46 ` [PATCH net 0/3] SCTP fixes David Miller
2014-10-15 3:06 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-15 4:21 ` David Miller
2014-10-15 20:20 ` Neil Horman
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