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Message-Id: <20130215.135600.962022690327903176.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:56:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, tt.rantala@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davej@...hat.com, xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram()

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:41:41 +0100

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:07:33PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:16:53 -0800
>> 
>> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> > 
>> > Tommi was fuzzing with trinity and reported the following problem :
>> > 
>> > commit 3f518bf745 (datagram: Add offset argument to __skb_recv_datagram)
>> > missed that a raw socket receive queue can contain skbs with no payload.
>> > 
>> > We can loop in __skb_recv_datagram() with MSG_PEEK mode, because
>> > wait_for_packet() is not prepared to skip these skbs.
>>  ...
>> > Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>
>> > Tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> 
>> Applied, thanks.
> 
> This issue got a CVE: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/310
> Perhaps it's something that should go to stable?

It's already queued up in my -stable queue.


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