Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:08:19 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       jmforbes@linuxtx.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu,
       rdunlap@xenotime.net, davej@redhat.com, chuckw@quantumlinux.com,
       torvalds@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [stable] Re: [patch 6/6] [NETFILTER]: Fix another crash in ip_nat_pptp (CVE-2006-0037)
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:57:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:18:35PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  	DEBUGP("altering call id from 0x%04x to 0x%04x\n",
> > > > -		ntohs(*cid), ntohs(new_callid));
> > > > +		ntohs(*(u_int16_t *)pptpReq + cid_off), ntohs(new_callid));
> > > 
> > > Note that this fix introduces another bug in the above use DEBUGP
> > > statement, as there is (u_int16_t *) ptr arithmetic used, whereas
> > > cid_off is a byte offset.
> > > 
> > > A fix for that was send a few weeks ago on netfilter-devel.
> > 
> > Great, care to forward it to stable@kernel.org so we can get it in the
> > next release?
> > 
> 
> I have a copy of the patch and I'll cc stable@ on it.  Although afaik this
> bug just causes wrong debug info to come out, so I don't think it's
> terribly important (?)

If that's the only problem with it, no it's not worth adding to -stable.

thanks though.

greg k-h
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