Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1763

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
novell
suse
nessus

Summary

Buffer overflow in ptrace in the Linux Kernel for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into kernel memory.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Novell
1
OS
Suse
3

Nessus

  • 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.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id21943
    published2006-07-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21943
    titleCentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2005:514)
  • 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.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id22788
    published2006-10-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22788
    titleDebian DSA-922-1 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SA_2005_029.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:029 (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. The following security problems have been fixed: - when creating directories on ext2 filesystems the kernel did not zero initialize the memory allocated. Therefore potentially sensitive information could be exposed to users (CVE-2005-0400). All SUSE LINUX based products are affected. - local users can crash the kernel via a crafted ELF library or executable, which causes a free of an invalid pointer (CVE-2005-0749). All SUSE LINUX based products are affected. - local users could gain root access via a bluetooth socket (CVE-2005-0750). The fix for this problem was missing in SUSE LINUX 9.3 only. - local users could gain root access by causing a core dump of specially crafted ELF executables (CVE-2005-1263). The problem is believed to be not exploitable on any SUSE LINUX based product. The patch is included nevertheless. - on the x86-64 platform various bugs allowed local users to crash the kernel or CPU (CVE-2005-0756, CVE-2005-1762, CVE-2005-1764, CVE-2005-1765) All SUSE LINUX based products on the x86-64 architecture are affected. - an overflow in the x86-64 ptrace code allowed local users to write a few bytes into kernel memory pages they normally shouldn
    last seen2019-10-28
    modified2005-06-10
    plugin id18462
    published2005-06-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18462
    titleSUSE-SA:2005:029: kernel
  • 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.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id19989
    published2005-10-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19989
    titleRHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2005:514)

Oval

accepted2013-04-29T04:02:54.624-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameAharon Chernin
    organizationSCAP.com, LLC
  • nameDragos Prisaca
    organizationG2, Inc.
definition_extensions
  • commentThe operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
  • commentCentOS Linux 4.x
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
  • commentOracle Linux 4.x
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
descriptionBuffer overflow in ptrace in the Linux Kernel for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into kernel memory.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10182
statusaccepted
submitted2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
titleBuffer overflow in ptrace in the Linux Kernel for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into kernel memory.
version26

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2005:514
rpms
  • kernel-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-devel-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-doc-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-hugemem-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-hugemem-devel-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-smp-0:2.6.9-22.EL
  • kernel-smp-devel-0:2.6.9-22.EL