#793 closed defect (fixed)

Malicious ICMP packet causes panic

Reported by: Eric Norum Owned by: Eric Norum
Priority: normal Milestone: 2
Component: network/legacy Version: unknown
Severity: major Keywords:
Cc: bugs@…, joel.sherrill@…, chrisj@… Blocked By:
Blocking:

Description

A network security scan here caused all the RTEMS machines on the network to
RTEMS: icmp_error: bad length
RTEMS: fatal error, exiting
I think that the fix is fairly simple. It's so simple, in fact, that I wonder if I'm missing something. Why did the original authors make the error condition a panic?

Release:
All

Environment:
Anything using the network stack

How-To-Repeat:
Have the Department of Energy probe your network . :-)

Attachments (1)

patch (999 bytes) - added by Eric Norum on 12/03/06 at 13:31:13.
patch

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Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed on 05/20/05 at 18:00:16 by Joel Sherrill

Status: assignedwaiting

comment:2 Changed on 03/07/06 at 22:02:20 by Joel Sherrill

Status: waitingclosed

State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
State-Changed-Why: Per private email from Eric Norum, this problem is not
obviously present in the 4.6 branch. If it does turn up on
a real system, we will reopen this or suggest they upgrade.

Changed on 12/03/06 at 13:31:13 by Eric Norum

Attachment: patch added

patch

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