Bug 275741 (CVE-2009-1389)

Summary:	Kernel: RTL8169 (drivers/net/r8169.c) DOS (CVE-2009-1389)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hardened-kernel+disabled, kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fdd7b4c3302c93f6833e338903ea77245eb510b4
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.6.27.26] [linux >=2.6.28 <2.6.29.6] [gp <2.6.29-8]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-28 20:50:04 UTC

CVE-2009-1389 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1389):
  Buffer overflow in the RTL8169 NIC driver (drivers/net/r8169.c) in
  the Linux kernel before 2.6.30 allows remote attackers to cause a
  denial of service (kernel memory corruption and crash) via a long
  packet.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-01 22:52:39 UTC

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550907:

git describe --contains 8c96206544955131f6d7cef09371950f34ebca5a
v2.6.33.2~16
git describe --contains c0cd884af045338476b8e69a61fceb3f34ff22f1
v2.6.34-rc3~9^2

In other words, it is fixed in stable release 2.6.33.2
and will be fixed in 2.6.35