CVE-2010-4342

La función aun_incoming en net/econet/af_econet.c en el kernel de Linux anterior a v2.6.37-rc6, cuando Econet está activado, permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (desreferencia a un puntero NULL y OOPS) mediante el envío de un paquete Acorn Universal Networking (AUN)sobre UDP.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in the Linux 2.6 kernel. Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active sockets. Nelson Elhage discovered that the kernel did not correctly handle process cleanup after triggering a recoverable kernel bug. Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. Dan Carpenter discovered that the TTPCI DVB driver did not check certain values during an ioctl. Jens Kuehnel discovered that the InfiniBand driver contained a race condition. Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values.