On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:46:12PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > 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.
I think thats a strong enough reason to tag it as a security fix, and thus include it in a kernel security update. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
