From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [SECURITY,2.4,IPV6]: Fix infinite loop in udp_v6_get_port().
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:36:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051027063637.GA5321@verge.net.au> (raw)
[IPV6]: Fix infinite loop in udp_v6_get_port()
This is CVE-2005-2973, and
87bf9c97b4b3af8dec7b2b79cdfe7bfc0a0a03b2 in Linus' 2.6 Git Tree.
It seems to be relevant to 2.4
[IPV6]: Fix infinite loop in udp_v6_get_port()
Original sign-off
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mine, indicating that I think it is relevant to 2.4
Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index 471180b..4395aa4 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static int udp_v6_get_port(struct sock *
next:;
}
result = best;
- for(;; result += UDP_HTABLE_SIZE) {
+ for(i = 0; i < (1 << 16) / UDP_HTABLE_SIZE; i++, result += UDP_HTABLE_SIZE) {
if (result > sysctl_local_port_range[1])
result = sysctl_local_port_range[0]
+ ((result - sysctl_local_port_range[0]) &
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ static int udp_v6_get_port(struct sock *
if (!udp_lport_inuse(result))
break;
}
+ if (i >= (1 << 16) / UDP_HTABLE_SIZE)
+ goto fail;
gotit:
udp_port_rover = snum = result;
} else {
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