CVE-2011-4913

Published: 04 January 2012

The rose_parse_ccitt function in net/rose/rose_subr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not validate the FAC_CCITT_DEST_NSAP and FAC_CCITT_SRC_NSAP fields, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (integer underflow, heap memory corruption, and panic) via a small length value in data sent to a ROSE socket, or (2) conduct stack-based buffer overflow attacks via a large length value in data sent to a ROSE socket.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dan Rosenberg discovered flaws in the linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer used by amateur radio. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
linux
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
Patches:
Introduced by 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed by be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8
linux-armadaxp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-ec2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-fsl-imx51
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-lts-backport-maverick
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-lts-backport-natty
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-lts-backport-oneiric
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-mvl-dove
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-ti-omap4
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.6.39~rc1)

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