netdev - Re: [PATCH] ATM: CVE-2008-5079: multiple listen()s on same socket corrupts the vcc table

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Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:00:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eteo@...hat.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATM: CVE-2008-5079: multiple listen()s on same socket
 corrupts the vcc table

From: "chas williams - CONTRACTOR" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:25:05 -0500

> please apply to net-next-2.6 and consider for net-2.6 if possible.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> commit 8c5629cfd33e2e8275aae98bbf62a98bf59bc7e8
> Author: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@...ax.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
> Date:   Thu Dec 4 12:14:42 2008 -0500
> 
>     ATM: CVE-2008-5079: duplicate listen() on socket corrupts the vcc table
>     
>     As reported by Hugo Dias that it is possible to cause a local denial
>     of service attack by calling the svc_listen function twice on the same
>     socket and reading /proc/net/atm/*vc
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks Chas.
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