Vulnerability CVE-2009-2909
Published: 2009-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
ax25_setsockopt function - Integer signedness error - Denial of Service Vulnerability
Fedora Team
22.10.2009

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Kernel 

 References:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/896907
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;a=commit;h=b7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758
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