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

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Horms wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 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?

There is no public CVE assignment for this issue. If's it easily reproducable
for non-root, it might account as a local DoS vulnerability.

Cheers,
        Moritz