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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:41:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: multiple issues in ROSE

How do we want this broken down? If nobody complains, I'll just give it one.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- Original Message -----
> Any update on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
> wrote:
> > On 03/21/2011 03:40 AM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> >>
> >> I sent in a patch [1] resolving two issues in ROSE:
> >>
> >> "When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it's
> >> possible
> >> for a remote host to provide more digipeaters than expected,
> >> resulting
> >> in heap corruption. Check against ROSE_MAX_DIGIS to prevent
> >> overflows, and abort facilities parsing on failure.
> >>
> >> Additionally, when parsing the FAC_CCITT_DEST_NSAP and
> >> FAC_CCITT_SRC_NSAP facilities fields, a remote host can provide a
> >> length of less than 10, resulting in an underflow in a memcpy size,
> >> causing a kernel panic due to massive heap corruption. A length of
> >> greater than 20 results in a stack overflow of the callsign array.
> >> Abort facilities parsing on these invalid length values."
> >>
> >> These issues may both result in code execution. They may be
> >> triggered
> >> by a remote attacker if the victim has a listening ROSE socket, or
> >> by
> >> a local attacker (for privilege escalation) if a ROSE device exists
> >> (e.g. rose0).
> >>
> >> Ben Hutchings followed up with a patch [2] that resolves a number
> >> of
> >> other ROSE issues related to lack of size field validation, some of
> >> which may also result in heap corruption.
> >>
> >> Not sure about the proper CVE breakdown for all these issues, since
> >> the entire protocol was quite broken. Perhaps one is enough to
> >> cover
> >> everything.
> >
> > I am not sure. I would just assign one for the collection of issues
> > here but
> > I will let Steve decide instead.
> >
> >> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130060344616926
> >> [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130063972406389&w=2
> >
> > Thanks, Eugene
> > --
> > main(i) { putchar(182623909 >> (i-1) * 5&31|!!(i<7)<<6) &&
> > main(++i); }
> >

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