Bug#287769: marked as done (kernel-image-2.4.27-i386: CAN-2004-1016: flaw in the scm_send function)
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Subject: kernel-image-2.4.27-i386: CAN-2004-1016: flaw in the scm_send function
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Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
Severity: normal
Petter Reinholdsen (pere) forwarded some issues regarding the
RHEL kernels, and I've found that at least 2 of them affects
kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
> ISEC security research and Georgi Guninski independantly discovered a
> flaw in the scm_send function in the auxiliary message layer. A local
> user could create a carefully crafted auxiliary message which could
> cause a denial of service (system hang). The Common Vulnerabilities
> and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name
> CAN-2004-1016 to this issue.
I ran the code on a sarge installation - as root, and effectivly hang
the installation. This was a 386-kernel. Retried as a normal user,
using a 686-smp kernel, and it hang one CPU effectivly 100%. NOt even
possible to kill with 'kill -9 <PID>'
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From: Horms <horms@debian.org>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 287769-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#287769: kernel-image-2.4.27-i386: CAN-2004-1016: flaw in the scm_send function
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:26:40PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no> [2004-12-29 23:53]:
> > Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Petter Reinholdsen (pere) forwarded some issues regarding the
>
> This is fixed in the pending 2.4.27 packages at
> http://debian.vergenet.net/pending/kernel-source-2.4.27-2.4.27/kernel-source-2.4.27_2.4.27-7_i386.changes
I am closing this bug as those packages have now been uploaded.
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Horms
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