Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9059 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release 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-404
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-05-18
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by leveraging improper channel callback shutdown when unmounting an NFSv4 filesystem, aka a "module reference and kernel daemon" leak.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
3208

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Flooding
    An attacker consumes the resources of a target by rapidly engaging in a large number of interactions with the target. This type of attack generally exposes a weakness in rate limiting or flow control in management of interactions. Since each request consumes some of the target's resources, if a sufficiently large number of requests must be processed at the same time then the target's resources can be exhausted. The degree to which the attack is successful depends upon the volume of requests in relation to the amount of the resource the target has access to, and other mitigating circumstances such as the target's ability to shift load or acquired additional resources to deal with the depletion. The more protected the resource and the greater the quantity of it that must be consumed, the more resources the attacker may need to have at their disposal. A typical TCP/IP flooding attack is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack where many machines simultaneously make a large number of requests to a target. Against a target with strong defenses and a large pool of resources, many tens of thousands of attacking machines may be required. When successful this attack prevents legitimate users from accessing the service and can cause the target to crash. This attack differs from resource depletion through leaks or allocations in that the latter attacks do not rely on the volume of requests made to the target but instead focus on manipulation of the target's operations. The key factor in a flooding attack is the number of requests the attacker can make in a given period of time. The greater this number, the more likely an attack is to succeed against a given target.
  • Excessive Allocation
    An attacker causes the target to allocate excessive resources to servicing the attackers' request, thereby reducing the resources available for legitimate services and degrading or denying services. Usually, this attack focuses on memory allocation, but any finite resource on the target could be the attacked, including bandwidth, processing cycles, or other resources. This attack does not attempt to force this allocation through a large number of requests (that would be Resource Depletion through Flooding) but instead uses one or a small number of requests that are carefully formatted to force the target to allocate excessive resources to service this request(s). Often this attack takes advantage of a bug in the target to cause the target to allocate resources vastly beyond what would be needed for a normal request. For example, using an Integer Attack, the attacker could cause a variable that controls allocation for a request to hold an excessively large value. Excessive allocation of resources can render a service degraded or unavailable to legitimate users and can even lead to crashing of the target.
  • Resource Leak Exposure
    An attacker utilizes a resource leak on the target to deplete the quantity of the resource available to service legitimate requests. Resource leaks most often come in the form of memory leaks where memory is allocated but never released after it has served its purpose, however, theoretically, any other resource that can be reserved can be targeted if the target fails to release the reservation when the reserved resource block is no longer needed. In this attack, the attacker determines what activity results in leaked resources and then triggers that activity on the target. Since some leaks may be small, this may require a large number of requests by the attacker. However, this attack differs from a flooding attack in that the rate of requests is generally not significant. This is because the lost resources due to the leak accumulate until the target is reset, usually by restarting it. Thus, a resource-poor attacker who would be unable to flood the target can still utilize this attack. Resource depletion through leak differs from resource depletion through allocation in that, in the former, the attacker may not be able to control the size of each leaked allocation, but instead allows the leak to accumulate until it is large enough to affect the target's performance. When depleting resources through allocation, the allocated resource may eventually be released by the target so the attack relies on making sure that the allocation size itself is prohibitive of normal operations by the target.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-85744F8AA9.NASL
    descriptionThe 4.10.17 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-05-30
    plugin id100491
    published2017-05-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100491
    titleFedora 24 : kernel (2017-85744f8aa9)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2017-85744f8aa9.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(100491);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8890", "CVE-2017-9059", "CVE-2017-9074", "CVE-2017-9075", "CVE-2017-9076", "CVE-2017-9077");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-85744f8aa9");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 24 : kernel (2017-85744f8aa9)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The 4.10.17 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes
across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
possible without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-85744f8aa9"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected kernel package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/05/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^24([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 24", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


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

if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves"))
{
  rm_kb_item(name:"Host/uptrack-uname-r");
  cve_list = make_list("CVE-2017-8890", "CVE-2017-9059", "CVE-2017-9074", "CVE-2017-9075", "CVE-2017-9076", "CVE-2017-9077");
  if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
  {
    audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for FEDORA-2017-85744f8aa9");
  }
  else
  {
    __rpm_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
  }
}

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC24", reference:"kernel-4.10.17-100.fc24")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel");
}
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0174.NASL
    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0174 for details.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-12-14
    plugin id105248
    published2017-12-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105248
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0174) (BlueBorne) (Dirty COW) (Stack Clash)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM
# Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0174.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(105248);
  script_version("3.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10044", "CVE-2016-10200", "CVE-2016-10318", "CVE-2016-1575", "CVE-2016-1576", "CVE-2016-6213", "CVE-2016-9191", "CVE-2016-9604", "CVE-2017-1000111", "CVE-2017-1000112", "CVE-2017-1000251", "CVE-2017-1000363", "CVE-2017-1000364", "CVE-2017-1000365", "CVE-2017-1000380", "CVE-2017-1000405", "CVE-2017-10661", "CVE-2017-11176", "CVE-2017-11473", "CVE-2017-12134", "CVE-2017-12154", "CVE-2017-12190", "CVE-2017-12192", "CVE-2017-14106", "CVE-2017-14489", "CVE-2017-15649", "CVE-2017-16527", "CVE-2017-16650", "CVE-2017-2618", "CVE-2017-2671", "CVE-2017-7477", "CVE-2017-7482", "CVE-2017-7533", "CVE-2017-7541", "CVE-2017-7542", "CVE-2017-7618", "CVE-2017-7645", "CVE-2017-7889", "CVE-2017-8797", "CVE-2017-8831", "CVE-2017-8890", "CVE-2017-9059", "CVE-2017-9074", "CVE-2017-9075", "CVE-2017-9077", "CVE-2017-9242");

  script_name(english:"OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0174) (BlueBorne) (Dirty COW) (Stack Clash)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the RPM output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address
critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory
OVMSA-2017-0174 for details."
  );
  # https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-December/000805.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0059c7d1"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution",
    value:"Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset (UFO) Privilege Escalation');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/05/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/12/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/12/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"OracleVM Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleVM/release", "Host/OracleVM/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/OracleVM/release");
if (isnull(release) || "OVS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "OracleVM");
if (! preg(pattern:"^OVS" + "3\.4" + "(\.[0-9]|$)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "OracleVM 3.4", "OracleVM " + release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleVM/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

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

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"OVS3.4", reference:"kernel-uek-4.1.12-112.14.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"OVS3.4", reference:"kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-112.14.1.el6uek")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware");
}
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-1538.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The walk_hugetlb_range() function in
    last seen2020-03-19
    modified2019-05-14
    plugin id124991
    published2019-05-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124991
    titleEulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1538)
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0126.NASL
    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0126 for details.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102064
    published2017-07-31
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102064
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0126) (Stack Clash)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2017-3595.NASL
    descriptionThe remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel package(s).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102059
    published2017-07-31
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102059
    titleOracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3595) (Stack Clash)
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0145.NASL
    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0145 for details.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102774
    published2017-08-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102774
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0145) (Stack Clash)
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLEVM_OVMSA-2018-0015.NASL
    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0015 for details.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id106469
    published2018-01-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106469
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0015) (BlueBorne) (Meltdown) (Spectre) (Stack Clash)
  • NASL familyAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idALA_ALAS-2017-846.NASL
    descriptionModule reference leak due to improper shut down of callback channel on umount : The NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by leveraging improper channel callback shutdown when unmounting an NFSv4 filesystem, aka a
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100999
    published2017-06-23
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100999
    titleAmazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2017-846)
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0018.NASL
    descriptionAn update of [linux,libxlt] packages for PhotonOS has been released.
    last seen2019-02-08
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id111867
    published2018-08-17
    reporterTenable
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111867
    titlePhoton OS 1.0: Linux PHSA-2017-0018 (deprecated)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2017-3659.NASL
    descriptionThe remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel package(s).
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-12-14
    plugin id105247
    published2017-12-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105247
    titleOracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3659) (BlueBorne) (Dirty COW) (Stack Clash)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-273B67D5EE.NASL
    descriptionThe 4.10.17 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-05-26
    plugin id100435
    published2017-05-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100435
    titleFedora 25 : kernel (2017-273b67d5ee)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2017-3609.NASL
    descriptionThe remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel package(s).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102773
    published2017-08-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102773
    titleOracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3609) (Stack Clash)

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