Hardy CVE-2010-3873, memory corruption in X.25 facilities parsing (V2)

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/01/2011 10:06 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:41:26PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> Kees, I note that in v2.6.37 and later there is also this commit below,
>> you might want to review for relevance here.  It seems to prevent bad
>> packets triggering panics.
>>
>>    commit 5ef41308f94dcbb3b7afc56cdef1c2ba53fa5d2f
>>    Author: Dan Rosenberg<drosenberg at vsecurity.com>
>>    Date:   Fri Nov 12 12:44:42 2010 -0800
>>
>>      x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities
>
> Yes, please. :)
>
> -Kees
>

Under the auspices of CVE-2010-3873 ? Or a new CVE?

I'm not really interested in putting too much work into X.25 'cause I 
don't think anyone is even using it these days. I haven't encountered a 
phy over which X.25 would have run in nearly a decade.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com