275741 – (CVE-2009-1389) Kernel: RTL8169 (drivers/net/r8169.c) DOS (CVE-2009-1389)

Bug 275741 (CVE-2009-1389) - Kernel: RTL8169 (drivers/net/r8169.c) DOS (CVE-2009-1389)

Summary: Kernel: RTL8169 (drivers/net/r8169.c) DOS (CVE-2009-1389)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2009-1389

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel...
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.6.27.26] [linux >=2.6.28 <2...
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Reported:	2009-06-28 20:50 UTC by Stefan Behte (RETIRED)
Modified:	2013-09-15 19:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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