CVE-2011-1598 Information

Description

The bcm_release function in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc6 does not properly validate a socket data structure which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted release operation.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c6914a6f261aca0c9f715f883a353ae7ff51fe83 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/22/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/25/4 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/192898 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47503 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698057