Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-2918 - Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
CWE-400
nessus
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2012-05-24
Updated: 2023-02-13

Summary

The Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly handle event overflows associated with PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK events, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
1408

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • XML Ping of the Death
    An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
  • XML Entity Expansion
    An attacker submits an XML document to a target application where the XML document uses nested entity expansion to produce an excessively large output XML. XML allows the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.
  • Inducing Account Lockout
    An attacker leverages the security functionality of the system aimed at thwarting potential attacks to launch a denial of service attack against a legitimate system user. Many systems, for instance, implement a password throttling mechanism that locks an account after a certain number of incorrect log in attempts. An attacker can leverage this throttling mechanism to lock a legitimate user out of their own account. The weakness that is being leveraged by an attacker is the very security feature that has been put in place to counteract attacks.
  • Violating Implicit Assumptions Regarding XML Content (aka XML Denial of Service (XDoS))
    XML Denial of Service (XDoS) can be applied to any technology that utilizes XML data. This is, of course, most distributed systems technology including Java, .Net, databases, and so on. XDoS is most closely associated with web services, SOAP, and Rest, because remote service requesters can post malicious XML payloads to the service provider designed to exhaust the service provider's memory, CPU, and/or disk space. The main weakness in XDoS is that the service provider generally must inspect, parse, and validate the XML messages to determine routing, workflow, security considerations, and so on. It is exactly these inspection, parsing, and validation routines that XDoS targets. There are three primary attack vectors that XDoS can navigate Target CPU through recursion: attacker creates a recursive payload and sends to service provider Target memory through jumbo payloads: service provider uses DOM to parse XML. DOM creates in memory representation of XML document, but when document is very large (for example, north of 1 Gb) service provider host may exhaust memory trying to build memory objects. XML Ping of death: attack service provider with numerous small files that clog the system. All of the above attacks exploit the loosely coupled nature of web services, where the service provider has little to no control over the service requester and any messages the service requester sends.

Exploit-Db

descriptionLinux Kernel 'perf_count_sw_cpu_clock' event Denial of Service. CVE-2011-2918. Dos exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:17769
last seen2016-02-02
modified2011-09-01
published2011-09-01
reporterVince Weaver
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/17769/
titleLinux Kernel 'perf_count_sw_cpu_clock' event Denial of Service

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_KERNEL-110823.NASL
    descriptionThe SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.45 and fixes various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Timo Warns reported an issue in the Linux implementation for GUID partitions. Users with physical access could gain access to sensitive kernel memory by adding a storage device with a specially crafted corrupted invalid partition table. (CVE-2011-1776) - The second part of this fix was not yet applied to our kernel: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device. (CVE-2010-3881) - The /proc/PID/io interface could be used by local attackers to gain information on other processes like number of password characters typed or similar. (CVE-2011-2495) - A small buffer overflow in the radio driver si4713-i2c was fixed that could potentially used by local attackers to crash the kernel or potentially execute code. (CVE-2011-2700) - A kernel information leak in the comedi driver from kernel to userspace was fixed. (CVE-2011-2909) - In the perf framework software event overflows could deadlock or delete an uninitialized timer. (CVE-2011-2918)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id57109
    published2011-12-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57109
    titleSuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 5031 / 5055)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is
# copyright (C) Novell, Inc.
#

if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0);

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
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  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:42");

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"The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to
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The following security issues have been fixed :

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    for GUID partitions. Users with physical access could
    gain access to sensitive kernel memory by adding a
    storage device with a specially crafted corrupted
    invalid partition table. (CVE-2011-1776)

  - The second part of this fix was not yet applied to our
    kernel: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before
    2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members,
    which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive
    information from kernel stack memory via read operations
    on the /dev/kvm device. (CVE-2010-3881)

  - The /proc/PID/io interface could be used by local
    attackers to gain information on other processes like
    number of password characters typed or similar.
    (CVE-2011-2495)

  - A small buffer overflow in the radio driver si4713-i2c
    was fixed that could potentially used by local attackers
    to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.
    (CVE-2011-2700)

  - A kernel information leak in the comedi driver from
    kernel to userspace was fixed. (CVE-2011-2909)

  - In the perf framework software event overflows could
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    attribute:"see_also",
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    attribute:"see_also",
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    attribute:"see_also",
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  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
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  );
  script_set_attribute(
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    value:"Apply SAT patch number 5031 / 5055 as appropriate."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:btrfs-kmp-default");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:btrfs-kmp-xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:ext4dev-kmp-default");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:hyper-v-kmp-default");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-desktop-devel");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-source");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-syms");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-extra");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/08/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/12/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)11") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SuSE 11", cpu);

pl = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(pl) || int(pl) != 1) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11.1");


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"btrfs-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.3.54")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"btrfs-kmp-xen-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.3.54")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"hyper-v-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.14.10")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-extra-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-source-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-syms-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-extra-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"btrfs-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.3.54")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"ext4dev-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-7.9.21")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-default-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-default-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-default-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-default-man-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-source-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-syms-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-trace-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-trace-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"s390x", reference:"kernel-trace-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"btrfs-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.3.54")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"btrfs-kmp-xen-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.3.54")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"ext4dev-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-7.9.21")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"ext4dev-kmp-xen-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-7.9.21")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"hyper-v-kmp-default-0_2.6.32.45_0.3-0.14.10")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-default-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-ec2-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-ec2-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-source-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-syms-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-trace-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-trace-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-trace-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-base-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xen-devel-2.6.32.45-0.3.2")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_3_KERNEL-111026.NASL
    descriptionThe openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-1833: Added a kernel option to ensure ecryptfs is mounting only on paths belonging to the current ui, which would have allowed local attackers to potentially gain privileges via symlink attacks. CVE-2011-3363: Always check the path in CIFS mounts to avoid interesting filesystem path interaction issues and potential crashes. CVE-2011-2918: In the perf framework software event overflows could deadlock or delete an uninitialized timer. CVE-2011-3353: In the fuse filesystem, FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY did not check the length of the write so the message processing could overrun and result in a BUG_ON() in fuse_copy_fill(). This flaw could be used by local users able to mount FUSE filesystems to crash the system. CVE-2011-3191: A signedness issue in CIFS could possibly have lead to to memory corruption, if a malicious server could send crafted replies to the host. CVE-2011-1776: The is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel did not check the size of an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) GUID Partition Table (GPT) entry, which allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and OOPS) or obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by connecting a crafted GPT storage device, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1577. Following non security bugs were fixed : - drm/radeon/kms: Fix I2C mask definitions (bnc#712023). - ext4: Fix max file size and logical block counting of extent format file (bnc#706374). - TTY: pty, fix pty counting (bnc#711203). - Update Xen patches to 2.6.34.10. - xen/blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in connect(). - xen/xenbus: fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end(). - xen/blkback: don
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id75556
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75556
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:1221-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1219-1.NASL
    descriptionRyan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1576) Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2213) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700) Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918) Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2928) Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191) Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56344
    published2011-09-30
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56344
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1219-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1227-1.NASL
    descriptionRyan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1576) Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2213) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700) Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918) Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2928) Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191) Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56466
    published2011-10-12
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56466
    titleUbuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1227-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1203-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack did not correctly handle packet backlogs. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a large amount of network traffic to cause the system to run out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. (CVE-2011-1585) It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767) It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56191
    published2011-09-14
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2013 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56191
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1203-1)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2012-0333.NASL
    descriptionUpdated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. These packages contain the Linux kernel. Security fixes : * SG_IO ioctl SCSI requests on partitions or LVM volumes could be passed to the underlying block device, allowing a privileged user to bypass restrictions and gain read and write access (and be able to issue other SCSI commands) to the entire block device. (CVE-2011-4127, Important) * A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl() to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2012-0044, Important) * A local, unprivileged user could use a flaw in the Performance Events implementation to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918, Moderate) * A local, unprivileged user could use flaws in the XFS file system implementation to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. (CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2012-0038, Moderate) * A local, unprivileged user could use a flaw in the Out of Memory (OOM) killer to monopolize memory, have their process skipped by the OOM killer, or cause other tasks to be terminated. (CVE-2011-4097, Moderate) * A local, unprivileged user could use a flaw in the key management facility to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4110, Moderate) * A malicious Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) server could return a crafted reply to a GETACL request, causing a denial of service on the client. (CVE-2011-4131, Moderate) * A local attacker could use a flaw in the Journaling Block Device (JBD) to crash the system by mounting a specially crafted ext3 or ext4 disk. (CVE-2011-4132, Moderate) * A flaw in igmp_heard_query() could allow an attacker, who is able to send certain IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) packets to a target system, to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207, Moderate) * If lock contention during signal sending occurred when in a software interrupt handler that is using the per-CPU debug stack, the task could be scheduled out on the realtime kernel, possibly leading to debug stack corruption. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0810, Moderate) Red Hat would like to thank Chen Haogang for reporting CVE-2012-0044; Wang Xi for reporting CVE-2012-0038; Shubham Goyal for reporting CVE-2011-4097; Andy Adamson for reporting CVE-2011-4131; and Simon McVittie for reporting CVE-2012-0207. Bug fixes : * When a sleeping task, waiting on a futex (fast userspace mutex), tried to get the spin_lock(hb->lock) RT-mutex, if the owner of the futex released the lock, the sleeping task was put on a futex proxy lock. Consequently, the sleeping task was blocked on two locks and eventually terminated in the BUG_ON() function. With this update, the WAKEUP_INPROGRESS pseudo-lock has been added to be used as a proxy lock. This pseudo-lock tells the sleeping task that it is being woken up so that the task no longer tries to get the second lock. Now, the futex code works as expected and sleeping tasks no longer crash in the described scenario. (BZ#784733) * When the CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS configuration option was disabled, some services such as sshd and ipsec, while working properly, returned warning messages regarding this missing option during start up. With this update, CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS has been enabled and no warning messages are now returned in the described scenario. (BZ#786145) * Previously, when a read operation on a loop device failed, the data successfully read from the device was not cleared and could eventually leak. This bug has been fixed and all data are now properly cleared in the described scenario. (BZ#761420) * Due to an assembler-sourced object, the perf utility (from the perf-rt package) for AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures contained an executable stack. This update adds the
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id76639
    published2014-07-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/76639
    titleRHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:0333)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2011-1350.NASL
    descriptionUpdated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important) * An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746, Important) * A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56404
    published2011-10-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56404
    titleRHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1350)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1208-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack did not correctly handle packet backlogs. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a large amount of network traffic to cause the system to run out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. (CVE-2011-1585) It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767) It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56207
    published2011-09-15
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2013 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56207
    titleUbuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1208-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_KERNEL-110824.NASL
    descriptionThe SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.45 and fixes various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Timo Warns reported an issue in the Linux implementation for GUID partitions. Users with physical access could gain access to sensitive kernel memory by adding a storage device with a specially crafted corrupted invalid partition table. (CVE-2011-1776) - The second part of this fix was not yet applied to our kernel: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device. (CVE-2010-3881) - The /proc/PID/io interface could be used by local attackers to gain information on other processes like number of password characters typed or similar. (CVE-2011-2495) - A small buffer overflow in the radio driver si4713-i2c was fixed that could potentially used by local attackers to crash the kernel or potentially execute code. (CVE-2011-2700) - A kernel information leak in the comedi driver from kernel to userspace was fixed. (CVE-2011-2909) - In the perf framework software event overflows could deadlock or delete an uninitialized timer. (CVE-2011-2918)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id57110
    published2011-12-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57110
    titleSuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 5056)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-2303.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-1020 Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem that allows local users to gain access to sensitive process information after execution of a setuid binary. - CVE-2011-1576 Ryan Sweat discovered an issue in the VLAN implementation. Local users may be able to cause a kernel memory leak, resulting in a denial of service. - CVE-2011-2484 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the number of exit handlers that a process can register is not capped, resulting in local denial of service through resource exhaustion (CPU time and memory). - CVE-2011-2491 Vasily Averin discovered an issue with the NFS locking implementation. A malicious NFS server can cause a client to hang indefinitely in an unlock call. - CVE-2011-2492 Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that uninitialized struct elements in the Bluetooth subsystem could lead to a leak of sensitive kernel memory through leaked stack memory. - CVE-2011-2495 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the io file of a process
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2011-09-09
    plugin id56130
    published2011-09-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56130
    titleDebian DSA-2303-2 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1218-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack did not correctly handle packet backlogs. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a large amount of network traffic to cause the system to run out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. (CVE-2011-1585) It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767) It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56343
    published2011-09-30
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56343
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1218-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1202-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3296, CVE-2010-3297) Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3858) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3859) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CAN protocol on 64bit systems did not correctly calculate the size of certain buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2010-3874) Nelson Elhage discovered that the Linux kernel IPv4 implementation did not properly audit certain bytecodes in netlink messages. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the kernel to hang, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880) Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4073) Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4075, CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RME Hammerfall DSP audio interface driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4080, CVE-2010-4081) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the VIA video driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4082) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the semctl syscall did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4083) James Bottomley discovered that the ICP vortex storage array controller driver did not validate certain sizes. A local attacker on a 64bit system could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4157) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel L2TP implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to to crash the kernel, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4160) Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain iovec operations did not calculate page counts correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4162) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validate iov segments. A local attacker with access to a SCSI device could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4163, CVE-2010-4668) Dave Jones discovered that the mprotect system call did not correctly handle merged VMAs. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4169) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS protocol did not correctly check ioctl arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4175) Alan Cox discovered that the HCI UART driver did not correctly check if a write operation was available. If the mmap_min-addr sysctl was changed from the Ubuntu default to a value of 0, a local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4242) Brad Spengler discovered that the kernel did not correctly account for userspace memory allocations during exec() calls. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all system memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4243) It was discovered that multithreaded exec did not handle CPU timers correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4248) It was discovered that named pipes did not correctly handle certain fcntl calls. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4256) Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit. (CVE-2010-4565) Dan Carpenter discovered that the Infiniband driver did not correctly handle certain requests. A local user could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044) Kees Cook discovered that some ethtool functions did not correctly clear heap memory. A local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges could exploit this to read portions of kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4655) Kees Cook discovered that the IOWarrior USB device driver did not correctly check certain size fields. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4656) Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0463) Dan Carpenter discovered that the TTPCI DVB driver did not check certain values during an ioctl. If the dvb-ttpci module was loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0521) Jens Kuehnel discovered that the InfiniBand driver contained a race condition. On systems using InfiniBand, a local attacker could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-0695) Dan Rosenberg discovered that XFS did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could make crafted ioctl calls to leak portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0711) Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that the caiaq Native Instruments USB driver did not correctly validate string lengths. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0712) Kees Cook reported that /proc/pid/stat did not correctly filter certain memory locations. A local attacker could determine the memory layout of processes in an attempt to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit. (CVE-2011-0726) Timo Warns discovered that MAC partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1010) Timo Warns discovered that LDM partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1012) Matthiew Herrb discovered that the drm modeset interface did not correctly handle a signed comparison. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1013) Marek Olsak discovered that the Radeon GPU drivers did not correctly validate certain registers. On systems with specific hardware, a local attacker could exploit this to write to arbitrary video memory. (CVE-2011-1016) Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values. By inserting a specially crafted disk device, a local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1017) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability was not needed to load kernel modules. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could load existing kernel modules, possibly increasing the attack surface available on the system. (CVE-2011-1019) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080) Nelson Elhage discovered that the epoll subsystem did not correctly handle certain structures. A local attacker could create malicious requests that would hang the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1082) Neil Horman discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly handle certain orders of operation with ACL data. A remote attacker with access to an NFSv4 mount could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1090) Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093) Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160) Timo Warns discovered that OSF partition parsing routines did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to read kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1163) Dan Rosenberg discovered that some ALSA drivers did not correctly check the adapter index during ioctl calls. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could make a specially crafted ioctl call to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1169) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1173) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180) Julien Tinnes discovered that the kernel did not correctly validate the signal structure from tkill(). A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to arbitrary threads, possibly bypassing expected restrictions. (CVE-2011-1182) Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Dan Rosenberg discovered that MPT devices did not correctly validate certain values in ioctl calls. If these drivers were loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) Tavis Ormandy discovered that the pidmap function did not correctly handle large requests. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1593) Oliver Hartkopp and Dave Jones discovered that the CAN network driver did not correctly validate certain socket structures. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1598, CVE-2011-1748) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check certain ioctl values. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check the size of certain memory allocations. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to run the system out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1746) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the DCCP stack did not correctly handle certain packet structures. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1770) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could expoit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484) It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2492) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56190
    published2011-09-14
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56190
    titleUSN-1202-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1256-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080) Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093) Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180) Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478) It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1479) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573) Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1576) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581) It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. (CVE-2011-1585) It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767) It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768) Ben Greear discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle direct I/O. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771) Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56768
    published2011-11-10
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56768
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_4_KERNEL-111026.NASL
    descriptionThe openSUSE 11.4 kernel was updated to 2.6.37.6 fixing lots of bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-1833: Added a kernel option to ensure ecryptfs is mounting only on paths belonging to the current ui, which would have allowed local attackers to potentially gain privileges via symlink attacks. CVE-2011-2695: Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer. CVE-2011-3363: Always check the path in CIFS mounts to avoid interesting filesystem path interaction issues and potential crashes. CVE-2011-2918: In the perf framework software event overflows could deadlock or delete an uninitialized timer. CVE-2011-3353: In the fuse filesystem, FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY did not check the length of the write so the message processing could overrun and result in a BUG_ON() in fuse_copy_fill(). This flaw could be used by local users able to mount FUSE filesystems to crash the system. CVE-2011-2183: Fixed a race between ksmd and other memory management code, which could result in a NULL ptr dereference and kernel crash. CVE-2011-3191: A signedness issue in CIFS could possibly have lead to to memory corruption, if a malicious server could send crafted replies to the host. CVE-2011-1776: The is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel did not check the size of an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) GUID Partition Table (GPT) entry, which allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and OOPS) or obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by connecting a crafted GPT storage device, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1577. Following non-security bugs were fixed : - novfs: Unable to change password in the Novell Client for Linux (bnc#713229). - novfs: last modification time not reliable (bnc#642896). - novfs: unlink directory after unmap (bnc#649625). - fs: novfs: Fix exit handlers on local_unlink (bnc#649625). - novfs:
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id75881
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75881
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:1222-1)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2011-1350.NASL
    descriptionFrom Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:1350 : Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important) * An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746, Important) * A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id68364
    published2013-07-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68364
    titleOracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1350)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1204-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3859) Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4075, CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could create malicious filters to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4158) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel L2TP implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to to crash the kernel, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4160) Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain iovec operations did not calculate page counts correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4162) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validate iov segments. A local attacker with access to a SCSI device could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4163, CVE-2010-4668) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS protocol did not correctly check ioctl arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4175) Alan Cox discovered that the HCI UART driver did not correctly check if a write operation was available. If the mmap_min-addr sysctl was changed from the Ubuntu default to a value of 0, a local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4242) Brad Spengler discovered that the kernel did not correctly account for userspace memory allocations during exec() calls. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all system memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4243) Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack did not correctly handle packet backlogs. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a large amount of network traffic to cause the system to run out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805) It was discovered that the ICMP stack did not correctly handle certain unreachable messages. If a remote attacker were able to acquire a socket lock, they could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4526) Dan Carpenter discovered that the Infiniband driver did not correctly handle certain requests. A local user could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044) Kees Cook reported that /proc/pid/stat did not correctly filter certain memory locations. A local attacker could determine the memory layout of processes in an attempt to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit. (CVE-2011-0726) Timo Warns discovered that MAC partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1010) Timo Warns discovered that LDM partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1012) Matthiew Herrb discovered that the drm modeset interface did not correctly handle a signed comparison. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1013) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080) Nelson Elhage discovered that the epoll subsystem did not correctly handle certain structures. A local attacker could create malicious requests that would hang the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1082) Neil Horman discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly handle certain orders of operation with ACL data. A remote attacker with access to an NFSv4 mount could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1090) Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093) Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160) Timo Warns discovered that OSF partition parsing routines did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to read kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1163) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1173) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180) Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) Oliver Hartkopp and Dave Jones discovered that the CAN network driver did not correctly validate certain socket structures. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1598) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the DCCP stack did not correctly handle certain packet structures. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1770) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could expoit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484) It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2492) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56192
    published2011-09-14
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56192
    titleUSN-1204-1 : linux-fsl-imx51 vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1212-1.NASL
    descriptionGoldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0463) Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values. By inserting a specially crafted disk device, a local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1017) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080) Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1173) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180) Julien Tinnes discovered that the kernel did not correctly validate the signal structure from tkill(). A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to arbitrary threads, possibly bypassing expected restrictions. (CVE-2011-1182) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Dan Rosenberg discovered that MPT devices did not correctly validate certain values in ioctl calls. If these drivers were loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581) Tavis Ormandy discovered that the pidmap function did not correctly handle large requests. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1593) Oliver Hartkopp and Dave Jones discovered that the CAN network driver did not correctly validate certain socket structures. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1598, CVE-2011-1748) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check certain ioctl values. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check the size of certain memory allocations. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to run the system out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1746) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the DCCP stack did not correctly handle certain packet structures. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1770) Ben Greear discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle direct I/O. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could expoit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484) It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2492) Sami Liedes discovered that ext4 did not correctly handle missing root inodes. A local attacker could trigger the mount of a specially crafted filesystem to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2493) It was discovered that GFS2 did not correctly check block sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2689) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56257
    published2011-09-22
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56257
    titleUSN-1212-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idALA_ALAS-2011-16.NASL
    descriptionThe skb_gro_header_slow function in include/linux/netdevice.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4, when Generic Receive Offload (GRO) is enabled, resets certain fields in incorrect situations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted network traffic. Race condition in the ecryptfs_mount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to bypass intended file permissions via a mount.ecryptfs_private mount with a mismatched uid. The (1) IPv4 and (2) IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disrupted networking) or hijack network sessions by predicting these values and sending crafted packets. Integer signedness error in the CIFSFindNext function in fs/cifs/cifssmb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large length value in a response to a read request for a directory. The Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly handle event overflows associated with PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK events, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id69575
    published2013-09-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69575
    titleAmazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2011-16)
  • NASL familyScientific Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idSL_20111005_KERNEL_ON_SL6_X.NASL
    descriptionThe kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important) - An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746, Important) - A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id61148
    published2012-08-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/61148
    titleScientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1211-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833) It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2492) It was discovered that GFS2 did not correctly check block sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2689) Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2699) The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918) A flaw was found in the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56256
    published2011-09-22
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56256
    titleUbuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1211-1)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-12874.NASL
    descriptionFixes assorted CVEs CVE-2011-2918: perf: Fix software event overflow CVE-2011-3188: net: improve sequence number generation CVE-2011-2723: gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled CVE-2011-2928: befs: Validate length of long symbolic links CVE-2011-3191: cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext CVE-2011-1833: ecryptfs: mount source TOCTOU race Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56416
    published2011-10-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56416
    titleFedora 14 : kernel-2.6.35.14-97.fc14 (2011-12874)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1216-1.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077) Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack did not correctly handle packet backlogs. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a large amount of network traffic to cause the system to run out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805) It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020) Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493) Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577) It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. (CVE-2011-1585) It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767) It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56305
    published2011-09-27
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56305
    titleUbuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1216-1)

Packetstorm

Redhat

advisories
bugzilla
id732379
title[bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1079(ethxx)]Illegal configuration detected for Max BW - using 100 instead [rhel-6.1.z]
oval
OR
  • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
    ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026
  • AND
    • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
      ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20111656003
    • OR
      • commentkernel earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6 is currently running
        ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350023
      • commentkernel earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6 is set to boot up on next boot
        ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350024
    • OR
      • AND
        • commentkernel-doc is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350001
        • commentkernel-doc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842002
      • AND
        • commentkernel-firmware is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350003
        • commentkernel-firmware is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842004
      • AND
        • commentperf is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350005
        • commentperf is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842006
      • AND
        • commentkernel is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350007
        • commentkernel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842012
      • AND
        • commentkernel-debug-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350009
        • commentkernel-debug-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842008
      • AND
        • commentkernel-debug is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350011
        • commentkernel-debug is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842014
      • AND
        • commentkernel-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350013
        • commentkernel-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842016
      • AND
        • commentkernel-headers is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350015
        • commentkernel-headers is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842010
      • AND
        • commentkernel-kdump-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350017
        • commentkernel-kdump-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842022
      • AND
        • commentkernel-kdump is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350019
        • commentkernel-kdump is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842020
      • AND
        • commentkernel-bootwrapper is earlier than 0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111350021
        • commentkernel-bootwrapper is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100842018
rhsa
idRHSA-2011:1350
released2011-10-05
severityImportant
titleRHSA-2011:1350: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
rpms
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-devel-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-doc-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-firmware-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-headers-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-kdump-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-kdump-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-kdump-devel-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • perf-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • perf-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6
  • kernel-rt-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-debug-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-devel-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-doc-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-firmware-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-trace-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-0:3.0.18-rt34.53.el6rt

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