Bug#972521: fastd: DoS'able memory leak on invalid packets

2020-10-22 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Control: retitle -1 fastd: CVE-2020-27638: DoS'able memory leak on invalid packets On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:21:16PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > Package: fastd > Severity: important > Version: 17-4 > > fastd doesn't free receive buffers for invalid packets. This can lead to > memory

Bug#972521: fastd: DoS'able memory leak on invalid packets

2020-10-19 Thread Sven Eckelmann
Package: fastd Severity: important Version: 17-4 fastd doesn't free receive buffers for invalid packets. This can lead to memory exhaustion or (with v20) to an assert. From the release text: The new buffer management of fastd v20 revealed that received packets with an invalid type