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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:19:08 -0700
From:      Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        VANHULLEBUS Yvan <vanhu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPSEC + long UDP causes reproducible crash [was: Crash in ether_input]
Message-ID:  <20090910231908.GD37291@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090910081337.GA66528@zeninc.net>
References:  <20090904223123.GD16213@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <723505E9-96C6-401C-A844-3D9BA2033795@neville-neil.com> <20090907191001.GA37291@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <54FDC10A-EAE3-4AE2-BF36-2C5F7D141C3A@neville-neil.com> <20090910073739.GB37291@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20090910081337.GA66528@zeninc.net>

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VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote:
>> I have been using i386 and amd64 virtual machines as well as an amd64
>> physical machine; this problem can be reproduced fairly reliably on all
>> of them for 7.0 and 7.1 (and we're pretty sure we saw it in 6.x and
>> didn't know what it was at the time).
>=20
> I fixed in FreeBSD 7.2+ a bug which looks to be related with your
> crashes (kernel panic with big packets), could you please try again
> with FreeBSD 7.2 and report us the result ?

The problem does indeed seem to be gone with 7.2.

Given that any unprivileged user could compile and run such a program on
an IPSEC-enabled pre-7.2 box and crash the system, isn't this a local
DoS exploit that should be fixed in the supported security branches
(including 7.1)?

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Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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