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OpenBSD SIOCGIFRTLABEL Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28473  
Release Date: 2008-01-14
Last Update: 2008-02-04

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:OpenBSD 4.2


CVE reference:CVE-2008-0384 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the handling of SIOCGIFRTLABEL ioctls in sys/net/if.c and sys/net/route.c. This can be exploited to cause a kernel panic via an SIOCGIFRTLABEL ioctl call on interfaces without an assigned route label.

The vulnerability is reported in OpenBSD 4.2.

Solution:
Apply vendor patch.
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.2/common/005_ifrtlabel.patch

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Chris Cappuccio.

Changelog:
2008-02-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://openbsd.org/errata42.html#005_ifrtlabel
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=120007327504064&w=2



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