467964 – (CVE-2013-2017) Kernel : veth: double-free flaw in case of congestion (CVE-2013-2017)

Bug 467964 (CVE-2013-2017) - Kernel : veth: double-free flaw in case of congestion (CVE-2013-2017)

Summary: Kernel : veth: double-free flaw in case of congestion (CVE-2013-2017)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2013-2017

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security

URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
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Reported:	2013-04-30 08:46 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2021-10-25 00:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-04-30 08:46:28 UTC

From ${URL} :

A flaw was found in the way Virtual Ethernet driver implementation in the Linux kernel handled skbs 
in case of congestion.

A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the system.

Introduced in:
2.6.33-rc1

Fixed in:
2.6.34

Upstream fix:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867

References:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127310770900442&w=3

Comment 1 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) archtester

2015-08-10 17:55:11 UTC

=sys-kernel/pf-sources-2.6.33_p4

only place this could still exist I think

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2021-10-25 00:34:45 UTC

No affected kernels in tree