oss-security - Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Marcus Meissner wrote:

> According to Karsten Keil just ESP fragment packets need to be accepted
> by the kernel to trigger the condition.
> We think this might be true for all 2.6 kernels (ever since esp.c got added)

Any idea what the starting version might be?

Also, you mentioned a hang, but the commit says a BUG() is generated.  is
this just based on different inputs?

- Steve

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