[PATCH 0/4][SRU][X] CVE-2019-3874 - SCTP Denial of Service
Tyler Hicks
tyhicks at canonical.com
Thu Apr 18 07:50:18 UTC 2019
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2019-3874
The SCTP socket buffer used by a userspace application is not accounted by
the cgroups subsystem. An attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of
service attack. Kernel 3.10.x and 4.18.x branches are believed to be
vulnerable.
Non-trivial backporting effort. Build logs are clean. I've regression tested
these changes by moving 1 GiB of data using SCTP over the loopback interface.
Tyler
Xin Long (4):
sctp: fix the issue that a __u16 variable may overflow in
sctp_ulpq_renege
sctp: use sk_wmem_queued to check for writable space
sctp: implement memory accounting on tx path
sctp: implement memory accounting on rx path
include/net/sctp/sctp.h | 2 +-
net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 6 ++++--
net/sctp/socket.c | 42 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
net/sctp/ulpevent.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
net/sctp/ulpqueue.c | 25 +++++++++----------------
5 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
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