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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:52:59 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: panic while appending
 data to a corked IPv6 socket in ip6_append_data_mtu

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On 07/23/2013 01:36 PM, P J P wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Linux kernel built with the IPv6 networking support is vulnerable
> to a crash while appending data to an IPv6 socket with UDP_CORKED
> option set. UDP_CORK enables accumulating data and sending it as
> single datagram.
> 
> An unprivileged user/program could use this flaw to crash the
> kernel, resulting in local DoS.
> 
> Upstream fix: ------------- ->
> https://git.kernel.org/linus/75a493e60ac4bbe2e977e7129d6d8cbb0dd236be
>
>  Reference: ---------- ->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987633
> 
> Acknowledgements: -----------------
> 
> Red Hat would like to thank Hannes Frederic Sowa for reporting this
> issue.
> 
> Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team DB7A
> 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB  C939 D048 7860 3655 602B

Please use CVE-2013-4163 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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