Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:9092

Info

Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9092
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0856
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 24 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 12:56AM
Credit: Discovery credited to Herbert Xu.
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
+ Linux kernel 2.4.21
+ Linux kernel 2.4.19
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SuSE Linux 8.1
SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
SuSE Linux 8.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Database Server 0
Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Redhat Linux 8.0 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
Redhat Linux 7.1 pseries
Redhat Linux 7.1 iseries
Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
MandrakeSoft Multi Network Firewall 2.0
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1 x86_64
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
David Mischler IPRoute 2.4.7
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1 x86_64
+ MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
David Mischler IPRoute 2.2.4
+ MandrakeSoft Multi Network Firewall 2.0
David Mischler IPRoute 20010824
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability

A problem has been discovered in iproute when handling messages from the kernel. Because of this, it may be possible for an attacker to deny service to legitimate users of a system.

Exploit / POC

Solution / Fix

Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Red Hat has released an advisory to address this issue. See referenced advisory for additional details.

Gentoo has released updates that may be applied with the following commands:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=sys-apps/iproute-20010824-r5";
# emerge ">=sys-apps/iproute-20010824-r5";

Debian has released advisory DSA 492-1 to address this issue. Please see the attached avdisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes.

RedHat has released advisory FEDORA-2004-115 to address this issue in Fedora. Please see the referenced avdisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes.

RedHat has released advisory FEDORA-2004-154 to address this issue in Fedora Core 2. Please see the referenced avdisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes. The fixes contain new packages for the netplug daemon.

Mandrake Linux has released advisory MDKSA-2004:148 along with fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

SuSE Linux has released a summary report (SUSE-SR:2005:001) advising that this as well as other issues have been resolved. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


David Mischler IPRoute 20010824

David Mischler IPRoute 2.2.4

David Mischler IPRoute 2.4.7

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Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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