[CVE-2010-4526] sctp: Fix a race between ICMP protocol unreachable and connect()

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Mon Jun 20 18:19:27 UTC 2011


CVE-2010-4526
	Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable function in
	net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.33 allows
	remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an ICMP
	unreachable message to a socket that is already locked by a user,
	which causes the socket to be freed and triggers list corruption,
	related to the sctp_wait_for_connect function.

This is already fixed in everything based on v2.6.34 and above, arriving
via mainline.  Following this email are patches for Hardy, and
Lucid/ti-omap4.

Note I have no clue how to confirm the backport for Hardy is good as
the bug seems to be hard to trigger and in a protocol I have no idea how
to test.  Any suggestions welcome.

Proposing for Lucid/ti-omap4, and requesting testing help for Hardy.

-apw




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