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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:18:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Mark J Cox <mjc@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?

> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=920fc941a9617f95ccb283037fe6f8a38d95bb69
>
> This will at least hang the networking of the system if triggered.
>
>
> 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).

Quick response (burried today) but I think this is already allocated 
CVE-2007-6282

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:NNop-SbiE4EJ:www.mail-archive.com/netdev%40vger.kernel.org/msg62480.html+CVE-2007-6282&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Mark

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