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Message-Id: <20150702024857.14E9A72E0D8@smtpvbsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2015 22:48:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, benh@...ian.org
Subject: Re: CVE Request: UDP checksum DoS

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> https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/605854034260426753
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=beb39db59d14990e401e235faf66a6b9b31240b0

> remote DoS via flood of UDP packets with invalid checksums

It appears that you are primarily asking for a CVE ID for the issue
involving the absence of a cond_resched call. Use CVE-2015-5364.

However, the presence of "return -EAGAIN" may also have been a
security problem in some realistic circumstances. For example, maybe
there's an attacker who can't transmit a flood with invalid checksums,
but can sometimes inject one packet with an invalid checksum. The
goal of this attacker isn't to cause a system hang; the goal is to
cause an EPOLLET epoll application to stop reading for an indefinitely
long period of time. This scenario can't also be covered by
CVE-2015-5364. Is it better to have no CVE ID at all, e.g., is
udp_recvmsg/udpv6_recvmsg simply not intended to defend against this
scenario?

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