[CVE-2011-1093] dccp: fix oops on Reset after close
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Thu Jul 21 14:12:44 UTC 2011
On 21.07.2011 15:59, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2011-1093
> The dccp_rcv_state_process function in net/dccp/input.c in the
> Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation in
> the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle packets
> for a CLOSED endpoint, which allows remote attackers to cause a
> denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) by sending
> a DCCP-Close packet followed by a DCCP-Reset packet.
>
> The fix for this has hit lucid and later via mainline and stable.
> Following this are two patches, the first for hardy, the second for
> lucid/fsl-imx51 and maverick/ti-omap4. I all cases they are a simple
> cherry-pick from the mainline commit as applied to the existing branches;
> hardy differs in context only.
>
> Proposing for hardy, lucid/fsl-imx51 and maverick/ti-omap4.
>
> -apw
>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
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