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

[Kees Cook]

Hi Andy,

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:06:43AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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. :)

Actually, the above patch is for CVE-2010-4164

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4164

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team