certfr_avis - certa-2009-avi-406

CERTA-2009-AVI-406

Vulnerability from certfr_avis

Une vulnérabilité dans le noyau Linux permet à un utilisateur distant malintentionné de provoquer un déni de service du système vulnérable.

Description

Une vulnérabilité dans la mise en œuvre du protocole AppleTalk dans le noyau Linux a été identifiée. Elle permet à un utilisateur distant de provoquer un déni de service du système vulnérable par le biais d'un datagramme AppleTalk construit de façon particulière.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

La version courante (GIT) du noyau corrige le problème :

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.31-git16.bz2

Linux 2.6.x.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2009-2903 (GCVE-0-2009-2903)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2009-09-15 22:00

Modified

2024-08-07 06:07

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via IP-DDP datagrams.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/17/11	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36379	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://secunia.com/advisories/36707	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522331	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/14/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	http://secunia.com/advisories/37909	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ffcfb8db540ff879c2a85bf7e404954281443414	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	http://secunia.com/advisories/37105	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/14/2	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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