Multiple Linux Vendor IP Options Vulnerability

BID:302

Info

Multiple Linux Vendor IP Options Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 302
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 01 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 01 1999 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was published in the BUGTRAQ mailing list by Piotr Wilkin <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: SuSE Linux 6.1
Redhat Linux 6.0
Linux kernel 2.3
Linux kernel 2.2
Debian Linux 2.1
Not Vulnerable: Linux kernel 2.4.12

Discussion

Multiple Linux Vendor IP Options Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel's IPv4 option processing may allow a remote user to crash the system.

The vulnerability is the result of the kernel freeing a socket buffer when it shouldn't while sending an ICMP Parameter Problem error message in response to an IP packet with a malformed IP option. This results in the buffer being freed twice and in memory corruption.

Of the Debian Linux 2.1 supported architectures only the SPARC one is vulnerable.

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Multiple Linux Vendor IP Options Vulnerability

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