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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

  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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