Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1761 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

Linux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via ptrace and the restore_sigcontext function.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2005-510.NASL
    description - Wed Jun 29 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> - 2.6.12.2 - Mon Jun 27 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> - Disable multipath caches. (#161168) - Reenable AMD756 I2C driver for x86-64. (#159609) - Add more IBM r40e BIOS
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    plugin id18604
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    titleFedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 (2005-510)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SA_2005_044.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:044 (kernel). The Linux kernel is the core component of the Linux system. This update fixes various security as well as non-security problems discovered since the last round of kernel updates. Not all kernels are affected by all the problems, each of the problems has an affected note attached to it. The CAN-YYYY-NNNN IDs are Mitre CVE Candidate IDs, please see http://www.mitre.org for more information. The following security problems have been fixed: - local users could crash the system by causing stack fault exceptions (CVE-2005-1767) SUSE Linux 9.0 and SLES8 are affected. - local users could use ptrace to crash the kernel (CVE-2005-1761). SLES8 on the ia64 architecture is affected. - by causing an overflow in the 32bit execve function users could crash the kernel or even execute code (CVE-2005-1768). SLES 9 on the x86-64 and ia64 architectures and SUSE Linux 9.1 on the x86-64 architecture are affected. - an overflow when validating XDR data for the nfsacl protocol could crash the kernel. SUSE Linux 9.2 and 9.3 are affected. - local users could crash the kernel by reading from large offsets in sysfs files SUSE Linux 9.2 is affected. On SUSE Linux 9.1 this update contains the kernel used by the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Service Pack 2. This kernel adds among many bugfixes and driver updates support for non-executable pages (NX) on x86 CPUs and improves dual core CPU support.
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    titleSUSE-SA:2005:044: kernel
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
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    descriptionUpdated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the sixth regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the sixth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. New features introduced by this update include : - diskdump support on HP Smart Array devices - netconsole/netdump support over bonded interfaces - new chipset and device support via PCI table updates - support for new
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    titleRHEL 3 : kernel (RHSA-2005:663)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
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    descriptionUpdated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the sixth regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the sixth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. New features introduced by this update include : - diskdump support on HP Smart Array devices - netconsole/netdump support over bonded interfaces - new chipset and device support via PCI table updates - support for new
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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    titleCentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2005:663)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idCENTOS_RHSA-2005-514.NASL
    descriptionUpdated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the second regular update. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the second regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. New features introduced in this update include: - Audit support - systemtap - kprobes, relayfs - Keyring support - iSCSI Initiator - iscsi_sfnet 4:0.1.11-1 - Device mapper multipath support - Intel dual core support - esb2 chipset support - Increased exec-shield coverage - Dirty page tracking for HA systems - Diskdump -- allow partial diskdumps and directing to swap There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The following security bugs were fixed in this update, detailed below with corresponding CAN names available from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) : - flaws in ptrace() syscall handling on 64-bit systems that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-0756, CVE-2005-1761, CVE-2005-1762, CVE-2005-1763) - flaws in IPSEC network handling that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges (CVE-2005-2456, CVE-2005-2555) - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling on 64-bit systems that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges (CVE-2005-2490) - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service by altering hardware state (CVE-2005-2492) - a flaw that prevented the topdown allocator from allocating mmap areas all the way down to address zero (CVE-2005-1265) - flaws dealing with keyrings that could cause a local denial of service (CVE-2005-2098, CVE-2005-2099) - a flaw in the 4GB split patch that could allow a local denial of service (CVE-2005-2100) - a xattr sharing bug in the ext2 and ext3 file systems that could cause default ACLs to disappear (CVE-2005-2801) - a flaw in the ipt_recent module on 64-bit architectures which could allow a remote denial of service (CVE-2005-2872) The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions : qla2100 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2200 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2300 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2322 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2xxx --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla6312 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 megaraid_mbox --- 2.20.4.5 to 2.20.4.6 megaraid_mm ----- 2.20.2.5 to 2.20.2.6 lpfc ------------ 0:8.0.16.6_x2 to 0:8.0.16.17 cciss ----------- 2.6.4 to 2.6.6 ipw2100 --------- 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 tg3 ------------- 3.22-rh to 3.27-rh e100 ------------ 3.3.6-k2-NAPI to 3.4.8-k2-NAPI e1000 ----------- 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI to 6.0.54-k2-NAPI 3c59x ----------- LK1.1.19 mptbase --------- 3.01.16 to 3.02.18 ixgb ------------ 1.0.66 to 1.0.95-k2-NAPI libata ---------- 1.10 to 1.11 sata_via -------- 1.0 to 1.1 sata_ahci ------- 1.00 to 1.01 sata_qstor ------ 0.04 sata_sil -------- 0.8 to 0.9 sata_svw -------- 1.05 to 1.06 s390: crypto ---- 1.31 to 1.57 s390: zfcp ------ s390: CTC-MPC --- s390: dasd ------- s390: cio ------- s390: qeth ------ All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.
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    plugin id21943
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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    titleCentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2005:514)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1018.NASL
    descriptionThe original update lacked recompiled ALSA modules against the new kernel ABI. Furthermore, kernel-latest-2.4-sparc now correctly depends on the updated packages. For completeness we
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    titleDebian DSA-1018-2 : kernel-source-2.4.27 - several vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-922.NASL
    descriptionSeveral local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2004-2302 A race condition in the sysfs filesystem allows local users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of service (crash). - CVE-2005-0756 Alexander Nyberg discovered that the ptrace() system call does not properly verify addresses on the amd64 architecture which can be exploited by a local attacker to crash the kernel. - CVE-2005-0757 A problem in the offset handling in the xattr file system code for ext3 has been discovered that may allow users on 64-bit systems that have access to an ext3 filesystem with extended attributes to cause the kernel to crash. - CVE-2005-1265 Chris Wright discovered that the mmap() function could create illegal memory maps that could be exploited by a local user to crash the kernel or potentially execute arbitrary code. - CVE-2005-1761 A vulnerability on the IA-64 architecture can lead local attackers to overwrite kernel memory and crash the kernel. - CVE-2005-1762 A vulnerability has been discovered in the ptrace() system call on the amd64 architecture that allows a local attacker to cause the kernel to crash. - CVE-2005-1763 A buffer overflow in the ptrace system call for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into arbitrary kernel memory. - CVE-2005-1765 Zou Nan Hai has discovered that a local user could cause the kernel to hang on the amd64 architecture after invoking syscall() with specially crafted arguments. - CVE-2005-1767 A vulnerability has been discovered in the stack segment fault handler that could allow a local attacker to cause a stack exception that will lead the kernel to crash under certain circumstances. - CVE-2005-2456 Balazs Scheidler discovered that a local attacker could call setsockopt() with an invalid xfrm_user policy message which would cause the kernel to write beyond the boundaries of an array and crash. - CVE-2005-2458 Vladimir Volovich discovered a bug in the zlib routines which are also present in the Linux kernel and allows remote attackers to crash the kernel. - CVE-2005-2459 Another vulnerability has been discovered in the zlib routines which are also present in the Linux kernel and allows remote attackers to crash the kernel. - CVE-2005-2548 Peter Sandstrom noticed that snmpwalk from a remote host could cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument. - CVE-2005-2801 Andreas Gruenbacher discovered a bug in the ext2 and ext3 file systems. When data areas are to be shared among two inodes not all information were compared for equality, which could expose wrong ACLs for files. - CVE-2005-2872 Chad Walstrom discovered that the ipt_recent kernel module on 64-bit processors such as AMD64 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via certain attacks such as SSH brute force. - CVE-2005-3105 The mprotect code on Itanium IA-64 Montecito processors does not properly maintain cache coherency as required by the architecture, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt data by modifying PTE protections. - CVE-2005-3106 A race condition in the thread management may allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) when threads are sharing memory and waiting for a thread that has just performed an exec. - CVE-2005-3107 When one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map a local user could cause a denial of service (deadlock) by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASK_TRACED state. - CVE-2005-3108 A bug in the ioremap() system call has been discovered on the amd64 architecture that could allow local users to cause a denial of service or an information leak when performing a lookup of a non-existent memory page. - CVE-2005-3109 The HFS and HFS+ (hfsplus) modules allow local attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) by using hfsplus to mount a filesystem that is not hfsplus. - CVE-2005-3110 A race condition in the ebtables netfilter module on an SMP system running under high load may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). - CVE-2005-3271 Roland McGrath discovered that exec() does not properly clear posix-timers in multi-threaded environments, which results in a resource leak and could allow a large number of multiple local users to cause a denial of service by using more posix-timers than specified by the quota for a single user. - CVE-2005-3272 The kernel allows remote attackers to poison the bridge forwarding table using frames that have already been dropped by filtering, which can cause the bridge to forward spoofed packets. - CVE-2005-3273 The ioctl for the packet radio ROSE protocol does not properly verify the arguments when setting a new router, which allows attackers to trigger out-of-bounds errors. - CVE-2005-3274 A race condition on SMP systems allows local users to cause a denial of service (null dereference) by causing a connection timer to expire while the connection table is being flushed before the appropriate lock is acquired. - CVE-2005-3275 An error in the NAT code allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by causing two packets for the same protocol to be NATed at the same time, which leads to memory corruption. - CVE-2005-3276 A missing memory cleanup in the thread handling routines before copying data into userspace allows a user process to obtain sensitive information. This update also contains a number of corrections for issues that turned out to have no security implication afterwards.
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    titleDebian DSA-922-1 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2005-514.NASL
    descriptionUpdated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the second regular update. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the second regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. New features introduced in this update include: - Audit support - systemtap - kprobes, relayfs - Keyring support - iSCSI Initiator - iscsi_sfnet 4:0.1.11-1 - Device mapper multipath support - Intel dual core support - esb2 chipset support - Increased exec-shield coverage - Dirty page tracking for HA systems - Diskdump -- allow partial diskdumps and directing to swap There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The following security bugs were fixed in this update, detailed below with corresponding CAN names available from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) : - flaws in ptrace() syscall handling on 64-bit systems that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-0756, CVE-2005-1761, CVE-2005-1762, CVE-2005-1763) - flaws in IPSEC network handling that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges (CVE-2005-2456, CVE-2005-2555) - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling on 64-bit systems that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges (CVE-2005-2490) - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service by altering hardware state (CVE-2005-2492) - a flaw that prevented the topdown allocator from allocating mmap areas all the way down to address zero (CVE-2005-1265) - flaws dealing with keyrings that could cause a local denial of service (CVE-2005-2098, CVE-2005-2099) - a flaw in the 4GB split patch that could allow a local denial of service (CVE-2005-2100) - a xattr sharing bug in the ext2 and ext3 file systems that could cause default ACLs to disappear (CVE-2005-2801) - a flaw in the ipt_recent module on 64-bit architectures which could allow a remote denial of service (CVE-2005-2872) The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions : qla2100 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2200 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2300 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2322 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2xxx --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla6312 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 megaraid_mbox --- 2.20.4.5 to 2.20.4.6 megaraid_mm ----- 2.20.2.5 to 2.20.2.6 lpfc ------------ 0:8.0.16.6_x2 to 0:8.0.16.17 cciss ----------- 2.6.4 to 2.6.6 ipw2100 --------- 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 tg3 ------------- 3.22-rh to 3.27-rh e100 ------------ 3.3.6-k2-NAPI to 3.4.8-k2-NAPI e1000 ----------- 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI to 6.0.54-k2-NAPI 3c59x ----------- LK1.1.19 mptbase --------- 3.01.16 to 3.02.18 ixgb ------------ 1.0.66 to 1.0.95-k2-NAPI libata ---------- 1.10 to 1.11 sata_via -------- 1.0 to 1.1 sata_ahci ------- 1.00 to 1.01 sata_qstor ------ 0.04 sata_sil -------- 0.8 to 0.9 sata_svw -------- 1.05 to 1.06 s390: crypto ---- 1.31 to 1.57 s390: zfcp ------ s390: CTC-MPC --- s390: dasd ------- s390: cio ------- s390: qeth ------ All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.
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    titleRHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2005:514)

Oval

accepted2013-04-29T04:06:04.730-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameAharon Chernin
    organizationSCAP.com, LLC
  • nameDragos Prisaca
    organizationG2, Inc.
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  • commentThe operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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  • commentCentOS Linux 3.x
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  • commentThe operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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  • commentCentOS Linux 4.x
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  • commentOracle Linux 4.x
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
descriptionLinux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via ptrace and the restore_sigcontext function.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10487
statusaccepted
submitted2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
titleLinux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via ptrace and the restore_sigcontext function.
version26

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advisories
  • rhsa
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  • rhsa
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  • rhsa
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