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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 782515@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: TCP Fast Open local DoS in some Linux stable branches - Linux kernel

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> There is a local DoS triggered by use of the TCP Fast Open option,
> specific to Linux stable branches, as a result of an incompletely
> backported bug fix:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/782515
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588

> The BUG() at the top of
> tcp_transmit_skb() fires as tcp_skb_pcount(skb) == 0.
> 
> tcp_send_syn_data() does:
> 
>         memcpy(syn_data->cb, syn->cb, sizeof(syn->cb));
> 
> Since commit cd7d8498c9a5 ("tcp: change tcp_skb_pcount() location") this
> is sufficient to set the GSO segment count correctly. But in older
> branches (< 3.18) the GSO segment count in skb_shared_info is used and
> is no longer copied by tcp_send_syn_data().

Use CVE-2015-3332.

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