On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:04:17AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Horms wrote: > >> below patch has been slurped into the Debian patches for 2.6.8, but the > >> error posted looks like the same error I suffered when hitting this bug. > >> > >> Patch from > >> http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html > >> > >> Cut and paste from the web archive, so spacing etc. may be boned. > >> But it's a typo-only fix anyway, so easy enough to recreate. >> >> Thanks I have added this to SVN. >> >> Is this considered a security bug and if so does it have a CAN number?
> There is no public CVE assignment for this issue. If's it easily reproducable > for non-root, it might account as a local DoS vulnerability. mii-tool's IOCTL is only allowed by root. The remote DoS comes from the fact that snmpd will call this IOCTL when it gets a request for the interface statistics. So it's exploitable via SNMP if the exploiter has access to the SNMP tree in question. (Which is not the default, if I recall correctly?) However, this means that cricket will bone the machine during the boot process, or soon after. ^_^ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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