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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:21:55 -0400
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: SCTP memory corruption in HMAC handling
Reference:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128596992418814&w=2
When parsing a peer's supported HMAC authentication options in the
sctp_auth_asoc_get_hmac() function, a malicious peer can craft their
HMAC array in such a way as to cause memory corruption (out-of-bounds
read followed by use of retrieved out-of-bounds data), which at the
very least could cause a denial of service via kernel panic, and
possibly worse. It appears this could be triggered remotely when
connecting to a malicious peer, or locally by a user acting as both
endpoints. In both cases, the "auth_enable" sysctl must be set in
order to trigger the bug.
-Dan
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