[Secure-testing-team] Re: Bug#309308: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: VLAN Oops fix for 2.6.8

[Horms]

tags +pending 309308
tags +patch 309308
thanks

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:42:54AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp
> Followup-For: Bug #309308
> 
> Just noticed this bug in the testing-security list. I don't know if the
> below patch has been slurped into the Debian patches for 2.6.8, but the
> error posted looks like the same error I suffered when hitting this bug.
> 
> Patch from http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html
> 
> The patch was taken into 2.6.9-rc2, and the bug was in code introduced
> very late in the 2.6.8 cycle. (August 2004 I believe)
> 
> diff -Nru a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
> --- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c      2004-09-10 06:12:16 -07:00
> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c      2004-09-10 06:12:16 -07:00
> @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@                                                                                                                                          
>         case SIOCGMIIREG:
>         case SIOCSMIIREG:
>                 if (real_dev->do_ioctl && netif_device_present(real_dev))
> -                       err = real_dev->do_ioctl(dev, &ifrr, cmd);
> +                       err = real_dev->do_ioctl(real_dev, &ifrr, cmd);
>                 break;
> 
>         case SIOCETHTOOL:
> 
> Cut and paste from the web archive, so spacing etc. may be boned.
> But it's a typo-only fix anyway, so easy enough to recreate.

Thanks I have added this to SVN. 

Is this considered a security bug and if so does it have a CAN number?

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Horms