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Message-ID: <4CDCCC12.2040608@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:09:38 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: possible kernel oops from user MSS

With commit f5fff5dc8a7a3f395b0525c02ba92c95d42b7390, a user program
can pass in TCP_MAXSEG of 12 (or TCPOLEN_TSTAMP_ALIGNED), and cause
kernel oops with division by 0 in tcp_select_initial_window.

Proposed patch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146495.html

Reference:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146405.html

Thanks, Eugene
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