Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > November 16 to 22, 2009

Overview

3 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 3 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 23 products from 9 vendors including Debian, Linux, Redhat, Canonical, and Apple. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Use After Free", "Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource", and "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer".

  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Debian has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

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EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

3 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2009-11-20 CVE-2009-4004 Linux Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Linux Kernel

Buffer overflow in the kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_setup_mce function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE IOCTL request that specifies a large number of Machine Check Exception (MCE) banks.
7.8
2009-11-20 CVE-2009-3553 Apple
Fedoraproject
Canonical
Debian
Redhat 		Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count.
7.5
2009-11-16 CVE-2009-3939 Linux
Redhat
Canonical
Debian
Avaya
Suse
Opensuse 		Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in multiple products

The poll_mode_io file for the megaraid_sas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file.
7.1

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS