APPLIED [natty/natty_ti-omap4 CVE-2011-1581] bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Jun 6 13:53:14 UTC 2011
On 06/06/2011 04:35 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2011-1581
> The bond_select_queue function in drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39, when a network device with
> a large number of receive queues is installed but the default
> tx_queues setting is used, does not properly restrict queue
> indexes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
> (BUG and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact
> by sending network traffic.
>
> Following this email is a patch for Natty and Natty ti-omap4 which corrects
> this issue. This is a straight cherry-pick from the mainline commit.
>
> Proposing for Natty and Natty ti-omap4.
>
> -apw
>
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
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