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TITLE:
Linux Kernel AppleTalk-IP Memory Leak Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36707

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak when handling
certain AppleTalk-IP datagrams. This can be exploited to cause a DoS
due to memory exhaustion by e.g. sending a large amount of specially
crafted AppleTalk-IP datagrams.

Successful exploitation requires that the appletalk and ipddp modules
are loaded and attached to the same interface.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mark Smith

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2903
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ffcfb8db540ff879c2a85bf7e404954281443414

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