Bug#309308: [Secure-testing-team] Re: Bug#309308: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: VLAN Oops fix for 2.6.8

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Horms wrote:
> > > There is no public CVE assignment for this issue. If's it easily reproducable
> > > for non-root, it might account as a local DoS vulnerability.
> > 
> > mii-tool's IOCTL is only allowed by root.
> > 
> > The remote DoS comes from the fact that snmpd will call this IOCTL when it
> > gets a request for the interface statistics.
> > 
> > So it's exploitable via SNMP if the exploiter has access to the SNMP tree
> > in question. (Which is not the default, if I recall correctly?)
> > 
> > However, this means that cricket will bone the machine during the boot process,
> > or soon after.
> 
> I think thats a strong enough reason to tag it as a security fix,
> and thus include it in a kernel security update.

Hi Horms,
this is now CAN-2005-2548. Can you please add it to the changelog?

Cheers,
        Moritz