First published: Mon Jun 20 2011(Updated: )
A malicious user or buggy application can inject code and trigger an infinite loop in inet_diag_bc_audit() Also make sure each instruction is aligned on 4 bytes boundary, to avoid unaligned accesses. <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/197206/focus=197386">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/197206/focus=197386</a> <a href="http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/100857/">http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/100857/</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Linux Linux kernel | <2.6.39.3 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =5.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =5.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =5.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus | =5.6 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Aus | =5.6 | |
debian/linux-2.6 |
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