From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@iem•uni-due.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla•kernel.org,
Martin Becke <martin.becke@uni-due•de>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
linux-sctp@vger•kernel.org, stable@kernel•org,
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [Bugme-new] [Bug 18592] New: Remote/local Denial of Service vulnerability in SCTP packet/chunk handling
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:05:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923180515.GG23040@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009181611.05665.dreibh@iem.uni-due.de>
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:11:03PM +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> On Donnerstag 16 September 2010, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> > On 09/15/2010 03:43 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Thanks, but please send patches via email, not via bugzilla.
> > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches has some tips. Suitable recipients for
> > > this patch are, from the MAINTAINERS file:
> > >
> > > M: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp•com>
> > > M: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>
> > > L: linux-sctp@vger•kernel.org
> > >
> > > but please just send it as a reply-to-all to this email so that everyone
> > > knows wht's happening.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest that you also add the line
> > >
> > > Cc: <stable@kernel•org>
> > >
> > > to the end of the changelog so that we don't forget to consider the
> > > patch for backporting.
> >
> > Hi Andrew
> >
> > There is a much simpler solution to this problem that I posted to netdev
> > today.
>
> Dear all,
>
> Vlad's patch solves the problem. I hope this patch can go into the mailine
> kernel soon, in order to get distribution kernels fixed as soon as possible. It
> is relatively easy to trigger the denial of service problem, making all
> systems providing SCTP-based services vulnerable to a remote DoS attack.
>
> I have also been able to reproduce the problem with kernel 2.6.32, i.e. at
> least all kernels from 2.6.32 to 2.6.36 are affected.
Is this in Linus's tree now? If so, does anyone have the git commit id?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 19:18 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-15 19:43 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 18592] New: Remote/local Denial of Service vulnerability in SCTP packet/chunk handling Andrew Morton
2010-09-16 0:34 ` Vlad Yasevich
2010-09-18 14:11 ` Thomas Dreibholz
2010-09-23 18:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-09-23 19:21 ` [stable] " David Miller
2010-09-23 19:37 ` Greg KH
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