CVE-2009-2909

Description

Integer signedness error in the ax25_setsockopt function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the ax25 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a crafted optlen value in an SO_BINDTODEVICE operation.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00483.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528887

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36635

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.31.2

http://secunia.com/advisories/37351

http://secunia.com/advisories/37075

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125494119617994&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/896907

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3