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Date:      Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:59:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
To:        "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic from bad length parameter in bind (Possible DOS attack)
Message-ID:  <49162.65.103.5.228.1081108774.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040403223230.GC613@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <49165.65.103.5.228.1081027268.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com> <20040403223230.GC613@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek said:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 02:21:08PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> +> Whenever I supply a length of 4 as the final bind parameter I get the
> +> following panic. Looks like bind returns fine, however, when the
> program
> +> exits it stumbles over some mutex associated with the descriptor. The
> +> mutex passed to mtx_destroy() has MTX_RECURSED set. I attempted to find
> +> where the call to bind was clobbering the mutex but couldn't. I
> attached
> +> the simple program to exploit this. I was able to do it as a regular
> user.
>
> Yes, could you try this patch:
>
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/tcp_usrreq.c.patch

That fixes it.

>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
>

--
Ryan Sommers
ryans@gamersimpact.com



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