Bugzilla – Bug 698190
VUL-1: kernel: does not properly manage a backlog of received packets,
Last modified: 2011-06-08 13:45:27 UTC
Hi. There is a security bug in package 'kernel'. This bug is public. There is no coordinated release date (CRD) set. CVE number: CVE-2010-4805 CVE description: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4805 CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.1 (moderate) (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) Resource Management Errors (CWE-399) Original posting: remote denial of service CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4805 URL: The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large amount of network traffic, related to the sk_add_backlog function and the sk_rmem_alloc socket field. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-YYYY-NNN. Reference: CONFIRM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303 Reference: MLIST: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/thread Reference: CONFIRM: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6 Reference: BID: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637 Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35
Could this be a duplicate of Bug #655973? The upstream commit c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6 got applied to our kernel trees already in the patch series from that bug.
yes, we got it already. i checked sle11 sp1, it has the patch, same for sle10 sp3 and sp4. so yes, it is fixed already. thanks!