APPLIED: [CVE-2011-1478] reset various skb fields on reuse

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Jul 27 16:22:37 UTC 2011


On 07/27/2011 09:20 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2011-1478
> 	Ensure we reset skb->dev and skb->iff when reusing an skb.
>
> The commits which introduced this issue were introduced in v2.6.29-rc1,
> therefore hardy is not affected.  The fixes for this CVE have hit lucid and
> later via mainline and stable updates.  Following this email are two pairs
> of patches, one for lucid/fsl-imx51 and the other for maverick/ti-omap4.
> These are direct cherry-picks from the stable updates to the master
> branches.
>
> Proposing for lucid/fsl-imx51 and maverick/ti-omap4.
>
> -apw
>


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