The sctp_packet_config function in net/sctp/output.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35.6 performs extraneous initializations of packet data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a certain sequence of SCTP traffic.

The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in several third-party components and libraries :

  - Kernel
  - krb5
  - glibc
  - mtp2sas
  - mptsas
  - mptspi

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2013-0039 for details.

The openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues.

Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2010-4347: A local user could inject ACPI code into the kernel via the world-writable 'custom_debug' file, allowing local privilege escalation.

CVE-2010-4258: A local attacker could use a Oops (kernel crash) caused by other flaws to write a 0 byte to a attacker controlled address in the kernel. This could lead to privilege escalation together with other issues.

CVE-2010-4157: A 32bit vs 64bit integer mismatch in gdth_ioctl_alloc could lead to memory corruption in the GDTH driver.

CVE-2010-4165: The do_tcp_setsockopt function in net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict TCP_MAXSEG (aka MSS) values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a setsockopt call that specifies a small value, leading to a divide-by-zero error or incorrect use of a signed integer.

CVE-2010-4164: A remote (or local) attacker communicating over X.25 could cause a kernel panic by attempting to negotiate malformed facilities.

CVE-2010-4175: A local attacker could cause memory overruns in the RDS protocol stack, potentially crashing the kernel. So far it is considered not to be exploitable.

CVE-2010-4169: Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel allwed local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

CVE-2010-3874: A minor heap overflow in the CAN network module was fixed. Due to nature of the memory allocator it is likely not exploitable.

CVE-2010-4158: A memory information leak in berkely packet filter rules allowed local attackers to read uninitialized memory of the kernel stack.

CVE-2010-4162: A local denial of service in the blockdevice layer was fixed.

CVE-2010-4163: By submitting certain I/O requests with 0 length, a local user could have caused a kernel panic.

CVE-2010-0435: The Hypervisor in KVM 83, when the Intel VT-x extension is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via vectors related to instruction emulation.

CVE-2010-3861: The ethtool_get_rxnfc function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain block of heap memory, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information via an ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool command with a large info.rule_cnt value.

CVE-2010-3442: Multiple integer overflows in the snd_ctl_new function in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD or (2) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctl call.

CVE-2010-3437: A range checking overflow in pktcdvd ioctl was fixed.

CVE-2010-4078: The sisfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl call.

CVE-2010-4080: The snd_hdsp_hwdep_ioctl function in sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl call.

CVE-2010-4081: The snd_hdspm_hwdep_ioctl function in sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an SNDRV_HDSPM_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl call.

CVE-2010-4082: The viafb_ioctl_get_viafb_info function in drivers/video/via/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a VIAFB_GET_INFO ioctl call.

CVE-2010-4073: The ipc subsystem in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain structures, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the (1) compat_sys_semctl, (2) compat_sys_msgctl, and (3) compat_sys_shmctl functions in ipc/compat.c; and the (4) compat_sys_mq_open and (5) compat_sys_mq_getsetattr functions in ipc/compat_mq.c.

CVE-2010-4072: The copy_shmid_to_user function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the shmctl system call and the 'old shm interface.'

CVE-2010-4083: The copy_semid_to_user function in ipc/sem.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) IPC_INFO, (2) SEM_INFO, (3) IPC_STAT, or (4) SEM_STAT command in a semctl system call.

CVE-2010-3432: The sctp_packet_config function in net/sctp/output.c in the Linux kernel performed extraneous initializations of packet data structures, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a certain sequence of SCTP traffic.

CVE-2010-3067: Integer overflow in the do_io_submit function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the io_submit system call.

CVE-2010-3865: A iovec integer overflow in RDS sockets was fixed which could lead to local attackers gaining kernel privileges.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0004 advisory.

    - [virt] xen: fix netback hotplug regression in xenbus fix (Laszlo Ersek) [636412 635999] {CVE-2010-3699}
    - [misc] posix-cpu-timers: workaround for mt exec problems (Oleg Nesterov) [656265 656266] {CVE-2010-4248}
    - [fs] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size (Oleg Nesterov) [645226 645227] {CVE-2010-3858}
    - [net] inet_diag: make sure we run audited bytecode (Jiri Pirko) [651266 651267] {CVE-2010-3880}
    - [net] limit sendto/recvfrom/iovec total length to INT_MAX (Jiri Pirko) [645871 645872] {CVE-2010-3859}
    - [bluetooth] hci_ldisc: fix missing NULL check (Jarod Wilson) [655664 655666] {CVE-2010-4242}
    - [virt] xen: add bounds req-process loop in blkback/blktap (Laszlo Ersek) [656208 654546] {CVE-2010-4247}
    - [virt] xen: don't leak dev refs on bad xenbus transitions (Laszlo Ersek) [636412 635999] {CVE-2010-3699}
    - [net] rds: fix rds_iovec page count overflow (Jiri Pirko) [647421 647422] {CVE-2010-3865}
    - [net] fix deadlock in sock_queue_rcv_skb (Danny Feng) [652536 652537] {CVE-2010-4161}
    - [net] packet: fix information leak to userland (Jiri Pirko) [649897 649898] {CVE-2010-3876}
    - [ipc] sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage (Danny Feng) [648721 648722] {CVE-2010-4083}
    - [net] sctp: do not reset packet during sctp_packet_config (Jiri Pirko) [637866 637867] {CVE-2010-3432}
    - [scsi] gdth: prevent integer overflow in ioc_general (Frantisek Hrbata) [651175 651176] {CVE-2010-4157}
    - [sound] core: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new (Jerome Marchand) [638483 638484] {CVE-2010-3442}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-2011 advisory.

    - [sctp] Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_con[CVE-2010-3432]
    - [drm/i915] Sanity check pread/pwrite [CVE-2010-2962]
    - [wireless] fix kernel heap content leak [CVE-2010-2955]
    - [sctp] Fix out-of-bounds reading in sctp_asoc_get_hmac() [CVE-2010-3705]
    - [niu] Fix kernel buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL [CVE-2010-3084]
    - Fix pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor range check [CVE-2010-3437]
    - Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter [CVE-2010-3079]
    - [kvm] Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt [CVE-2010-3698]
    - [alsa] prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new() [CVE-2010-3442]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0936 :

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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.

[Update 6 December 2010] The package list in this erratum has been updated to include the kernel-doc packages for the IA32 architecture.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security fixes :

* A flaw in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3432, Important)

* A missing integer overflow check in snd_ctl_new() in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem could allow a local, unprivileged user on a 32-bit system to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3442, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2010-3442.

Bug fixes :

* Forward time drift was observed on virtual machines using PM timer-based kernel tick accounting and running on KVM or the Microsoft Hyper-V Server hypervisor. Virtual machines that were booted with the divider=x kernel parameter set to a value greater than 1 and that showed the following in the kernel boot messages were subject to this issue :

time.c: Using PM based timekeeping

Fine grained accounting for the PM timer is introduced which eliminates this issue. However, this fix uncovered a bug in the Xen hypervisor, possibly causing backward time drift. If this erratum is installed in Xen HVM guests that meet the aforementioned conditions, it is recommended that the host use kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 or newer, which includes a fix (BZ#641915) for the backward time drift.
(BZ#629237)

* With multipath enabled, systems would occasionally halt when the do_cciss_request function was used. This was caused by wrongly-generated requests. Additional checks have been added to avoid the aforementioned issue. (BZ#640193)

* A Sun X4200 system equipped with a QLogic HBA spontaneously rebooted and logged a Hyper-Transport Sync Flood Error to the system event log.
A Maximum Memory Read Byte Count restriction was added to fix this bug. (BZ#640919)

* For an active/backup bonding network interface with VLANs on top of it, when a link failed over, it took a minute for the multicast domain to be rejoined. This was caused by the driver not sending any IGMP join packets. The driver now sends IGMP join packets and the multicast domain is rejoined immediately. (BZ#641002)

* Replacing a disk and trying to rebuild it afterwards caused the system to panic. When a domain validation request for a hot plugged drive was sent, the mptscsi driver did not validate its existence.
This could result in the driver accessing random memory and causing the crash. A check has been added that describes the newly-added device and reloads the iocPg3 data from the firmware if needed.
(BZ#641137)

* An attempt to create a VLAN interface on a bond of two bnx2 adapters in two switch configurations resulted in a soft lockup after a few seconds. This was caused by an incorrect use of a bonding pointer.
With this update, soft lockups no longer occur and creating a VLAN interface works as expected. (BZ#641254)

* Erroneous pointer checks could have caused a kernel panic. This was due to a critical value not being copied when a network buffer was duplicated and consumed by multiple portions of the kernel's network stack. Fixing the copy operation resolved this bug. (BZ#642746)

* A typo in a variable name caused it to be dereferenced in either mkdir() or create() which could cause a kernel panic. (BZ#643342)

* SCSI high level drivers can submit SCSI commands which would never be completed when the device was offline. This was caused by a missing callback for the request to complete the given command. SCSI requests are now terminated by calling their callback when a device is offline.
(BZ#644816)

* A kernel panic could have occurred on systems due to a recursive lock in the 3c59x driver. Recursion is now avoided and this kernel panic no longer occurs. (BZ#648407)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3904)

Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces.
(CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849, CVE-2010-3850)

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly filter registers on 64bit kernels when performing 32bit system calls. On a 64bit system, a local attacker could manipulate 32bit system calls to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3301)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the TTY driver. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-4895)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0435)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the MOVE_EXT ext4 ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could overwrite append-only files, leading to potential data loss. (CVE-2010-2066)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the swapexit xfs ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to read from write-only files, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2226)

Suresh Jayaraman discovered that CIFS did not correctly validate certain response packats. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2248)

Ben Hutchings discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly check certain sizes. A local attacker could perform malicious ioctl calls that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2478, CVE-2010-3084)

James Chapman discovered that L2TP did not correctly evaluate checksum capabilities. If an attacker could make malicious routing changes, they could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2495)

Neil Brown discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly check certain write requests. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that could crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-2521)

David Howells discovered that DNS resolution in CIFS could be spoofed.
A local attacker could exploit this to control DNS replies, leading to a loss of privacy and possible privilege escalation. (CVE-2010-2524)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the btrfs filesystem did not correctly validate permissions when using the clone function. A local attacker could overwrite the contents of file handles that were opened for append-only, or potentially read arbitrary contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2537, CVE-2010-2538)

Bob Peterson discovered that GFS2 rename operations did not correctly validate certain sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2798)

Eric Dumazet discovered that many network functions could leak kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2942, CVE-2010-3477)

Dave Chinner discovered that the XFS filesystem did not correctly order inode lookups when exported by NFS. A remote attacker could exploit this to read or write disk blocks that had changed file assignment or had become unlinked, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-2943)

Sergey Vlasov discovered that JFS did not correctly handle certain extended attributes. A local attacker could bypass namespace access rules, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2946)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to crash or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2954)

Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2955)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2960)

Kees Cook discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver did not correctly validate memory regions. A local attacker with access to the video card could read and write arbitrary kernel memory to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2962)

Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2963)

Toshiyuki Okajima discovered that ext4 did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or overwrite the last block of large files. (CVE-2010-3015)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the AIO subsystem did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3067)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain XFS ioctls leaked kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3078)

Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3079)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3080)

Dan 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, CVE-2010-3298)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ROSE driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker with access to a ROSE network device could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3310)

Thomas Dreibholz discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle appending packet chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3432)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3437)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Sound subsystem did not correctly validate parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3442)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3705)

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)

Kees Cook discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3861)

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)

Kees Cook and Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the shm interface did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4072)

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 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)

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 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 multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4164)

Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker could make a specially crafted socket call to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4165)

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)

Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active sockets. A local attacker could exploit this to allocate all available kernel memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4249)

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)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the kernel did not correctly handle process cleanup after triggering a recoverable kernel bug. If a local attacker were able to trigger certain kinds of kernel bugs, they could create a specially crafted process to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-4258)

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)

Frank Arnold discovered that the IGMP protocol did not correctly parse certain packets. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-0709).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3904)

Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces.
(CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849, CVE-2010-3850)

Ben Hutchings discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly check certain sizes. A local attacker could perform malicious ioctl calls that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2478, CVE-2010-3084)

Eric Dumazet discovered that many network functions could leak kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2942, CVE-2010-3477)

Dave Chinner discovered that the XFS filesystem did not correctly order inode lookups when exported by NFS. A remote attacker could exploit this to read or write disk blocks that had changed file assignment or had become unlinked, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-2943)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to crash or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2954)

Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2955)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2960)

Kees Cook discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver did not correctly validate memory regions. A local attacker with access to the video card could read and write arbitrary kernel memory to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2962)

Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2963)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the AIO subsystem did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3067)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain XFS ioctls leaked kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3078)

Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3079)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3080)

Dan 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, CVE-2010-3298)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ROSE driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker with access to a ROSE network device could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3310)

Thomas Dreibholz discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle appending packet chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3432)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3437)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Sound subsystem did not correctly validate parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3442)

Dan Jacobson discovered that ThinkPad video output was not correctly access controlled. A local attacker could exploit this to hang the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3448)

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3698)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3705)

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)

Kees Cook discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3861)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.
(CVE-2010-3865)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3873)

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)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3875)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3876)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the TIPC interface did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3877)

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)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that kvm did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3881)

Kees Cook and Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the shm interface did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4072)

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)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ivtv V4L driver did not correctly initialize certian structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4079)

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 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 multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4164)

Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker could make a specially crafted socket call to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4165)

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)

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)

Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active sockets. A local attacker could exploit this to allocate all available kernel memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4249)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the kernel did not correctly handle process cleanup after triggering a recoverable kernel bug. If a local attacker were able to trigger certain kinds of kernel bugs, they could create a specially crafted process to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-4258)

Krishna Gudipati discovered that the bfa adapter driver did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could read files in /sys to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4343)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the install_special_mapping function could bypass the mmap_min_addr restriction. A local attacker could exploit this to mmap 4096 bytes below the mmap_min_addr area, possibly improving the chances of performing NULL pointer dereference attacks.
(CVE-2010-4346)

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 Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4527)

An error was reported in the kernel's ORiNOCO wireless driver's handling of TKIP countermeasures. This reduces the amount of time an attacker needs breach a wireless network using WPA+TKIP for security.
(CVE-2010-4648)

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)

An error was discovered in the kernel's handling of CUSE (Character device in Userspace). A local attacker might exploit this flaw to escalate privilege, if access to /dev/cuse has been modified to allow non-root users. (CVE-2010-4650)

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)

Joel Becker discovered that OCFS2 did not correctly validate on-disk symlink structures. If an attacker were able to trick a user or automated system into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, it could crash the system or expose kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-NNN2)

A flaw was found in the kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). Changes made by an attacker might not be discovered by IMA, if SELinux was disabled, and a new IMA rule was loaded. (CVE-2011-0006)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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).

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - A flaw was found in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux     kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)     implementation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3432, Important)

  - A missing integer overflow check was found in     snd_ctl_new() in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem. A     local, unprivileged user on a 32-bit system could use     this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges. (CVE-2010-3442, Important)

  - A heap overflow flaw in the Linux kernel's Transparent     Inter-Process Communication protocol (TIPC)     implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3859, Important)

  - An integer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's     Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation.
    A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause     a denial of service or escalate their privileges.
    (CVE-2010-3865, Important)

  - A flaw was found in the Xenbus code for the unified     block-device I/O interface back end. A privileged guest     user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on     the host system running the Xen hypervisor.
    (CVE-2010-3699, Moderate)

  - Missing sanity checks were found in setup_arg_pages() in     the Linux kernel. When making the size of the argument     and environment area on the stack very large, it could     trigger a BUG_ON(), resulting in a local denial of     service. (CVE-2010-3858, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in inet_csk_diag_dump() in the Linux     kernel's module for monitoring the sockets of INET     transport protocols. By sending a netlink message with     certain bytecode, a local, unprivileged user could cause     a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880, Moderate)

  - Missing sanity checks were found in gdth_ioctl_alloc()     in the gdth driver in the Linux kernel. A local user     with access to '/dev/gdth' on a 64-bit system could use     this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges. (CVE-2010-4157, Moderate)

  - The fix put into kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 introduced a     regression. A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4161,     Moderate)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     Bluetooth HCI UART driver in the Linux kernel. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2010-4242, Moderate)

  - It was found that a malicious guest running on the Xen     hypervisor could place invalid data in the memory that     the guest shared with the blkback and blktap back-end     drivers, resulting in a denial of service on the host     system. (CVE-2010-4247, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's CPU time clocks     implementation for the POSIX clock interface. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2010-4248, Moderate)

  - Missing initialization flaws in the Linux kernel could     lead to information leaks. (CVE-2010-3876,     CVE-2010-4083, Low)

This update also fixes several bugs and adds an enhancement.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Security fixes :

  - A flaw in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux kernel's     Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)     implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service. (CVE-2010-3432, Important)

  - A missing integer overflow check in snd_ctl_new() in the     Linux kernel's sound subsystem could allow a local,     unprivileged user on a 32-bit system to cause a denial     of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3442,     Important)

Bug fixes :

  - Forward time drift was observed on virtual machines     using PM timer-based kernel tick accounting and running     on KVM or the Microsoft Hyper-V Server hypervisor.
    Virtual machines that were booted with the divider=x     kernel parameter set to a value greater than 1 and that     showed the following in the kernel boot messages were     subject to this issue :

time.c: Using PM based timekeeping

Fine grained accounting for the PM timer is introduced which eliminates this issue. However, this fix uncovered a bug in the Xen hypervisor, possibly causing backward time drift. If this erratum is installed in Xen HVM guests that meet the aforementioned conditions, it is recommended that the host use kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 or newer, which includes a fix (BZ#641915) for the backward time drift.
(BZ#629237)

  - With multipath enabled, systems would occasionally halt     when the do_cciss_request function was used. This was     caused by wrongly-generated requests. Additional checks     have been added to avoid the aforementioned issue.
    (BZ#640193)

  - A Sun X4200 system equipped with a QLogic HBA     spontaneously rebooted and logged a Hyper-Transport Sync     Flood Error to the system event log. A Maximum Memory     Read Byte Count restriction was added to fix this bug.
    (BZ#640919)

  - For an active/backup bonding network interface with     VLANs on top of it, when a link failed over, it took a     minute for the multicast domain to be rejoined. This was     caused by the driver not sending any IGMP join packets.
    The driver now sends IGMP join packets and the multicast     domain is rejoined immediately. (BZ#641002)

  - Replacing a disk and trying to rebuild it afterwards     caused the system to panic. When a domain validation     request for a hot plugged drive was sent, the mptscsi     driver did not validate its existence. This could result     in the driver accessing random memory and causing the     crash. A check has been added that describes the     newly-added device and reloads the iocPg3 data from the     firmware if needed. (BZ#641137)

  - An attempt to create a VLAN interface on a bond of two     bnx2 adapters in two switch configurations resulted in a     soft lockup after a few seconds. This was caused by an     incorrect use of a bonding pointer. With this update,     soft lockups no longer occur and creating a VLAN     interface works as expected. (BZ#641254)

  - Erroneous pointer checks could have caused a kernel     panic. This was due to a critical value not being copied     when a network buffer was duplicated and consumed by     multiple portions of the kernel's network stack. Fixing     the copy operation resolved this bug. (BZ#642746)

  - A typo in a variable name caused it to be dereferenced     in either mkdir() or create() which could cause a kernel     panic. (BZ#643342)

  - SCSI high level drivers can submit SCSI commands which     would never be completed when the device was offline.
    This was caused by a missing callback for the request to     complete the given command. SCSI requests are now     terminated by calling their callback when a device is     offline. (BZ#644816)

  - A kernel panic could have occurred on systems due to a     recursive lock in the 3c59x driver. Recursion is now     avoided and this kernel panic no longer occurs.
    (BZ#648407)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - Missing sanity checks in the Intel i915 driver in the     Linux kernel could allow a local, unprivileged user to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-2962, Important)

  - compat_alloc_user_space() in the Linux kernel 32/64-bit     compatibility layer implementation was missing sanity     checks. This function could be abused in other areas of     the Linux kernel if its length argument can be     controlled from user-space. On 64-bit systems, a local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their     privileges. (CVE-2010-3081, Important)

  - A buffer overflow flaw in niu_get_ethtool_tcam_all() in     the niu Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel, could allow     a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate     their privileges. (CVE-2010-3084, Important)

  - A flaw in the IA32 system call emulation provided in     64-bit Linux kernels could allow a local user to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3301, Important)

  - A flaw in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux kernel's     Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)     implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service. (CVE-2010-3432, Important)

  - A missing integer overflow check in snd_ctl_new() in the     Linux kernel's sound subsystem could allow a local,     unprivileged user on a 32-bit system to cause a denial     of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3442,     Important)

  - A flaw was found in sctp_auth_asoc_get_hmac() in the     Linux kernel's SCTP implementation. When iterating     through the hmac_ids array, it did not reset the last id     element if it was out of range. This could allow a     remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2010-3705, Important)

  - A function in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram     Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation was missing sanity     checks, which could allow a local, unprivileged user to     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3904, Important)

  - A flaw in drm_ioctl() in the Linux kernel's Direct     Rendering Manager (DRM) implementation could allow a     local, unprivileged user to cause an information leak.
    (CVE-2010-2803, Moderate)

  - It was found that wireless drivers might not always     clear allocated buffers when handling a driver-specific     IOCTL information request. A local user could trigger     this flaw to cause an information leak. (CVE-2010-2955,     Moderate)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw in ftrace_regex_lseek()     in the Linux kernel's ftrace implementation could allow     a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.
    Note: The debugfs file system must be mounted locally to     exploit this issue. It is not mounted by default.
    (CVE-2010-3079, Moderate)

  - A flaw in the Linux kernel's packet writing driver could     be triggered via the PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS IOCTL request,     possibly allowing a local, unprivileged user with access     to '/dev/pktcdvd/control' to cause an information leak.
    Note: By default, only users in the cdrom group have     access to '/dev/pktcdvd/control'. (CVE-2010-3437,     Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way KVM (Kernel-based Virtual     Machine) handled the reloading of fs and gs segment     registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged     host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw     to crash the host. (CVE-2010-3698, Moderate)

This update also fixes several bugs.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel

   This update takes the console OS kernel package to    kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1 which resolves multiple security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2010-1083, CVE-2010-2492, CVE-2010-2798,    CVE-2010-2938, CVE-2010-2942, CVE-2010-2943, CVE-2010-3015,    CVE-2010-3066, CVE-2010-3067, CVE-2010-3078, CVE-2010-3086,    CVE-2010-3296, CVE-2010-3432, CVE-2010-3442, CVE-2010-3477,    CVE-2010-3699, CVE-2010-3858, CVE-2010-3859, CVE-2010-3865,    CVE-2010-3876, CVE-2010-3877, CVE-2010-3880, CVE-2010-3904,    CVE-2010-4072, CVE-2010-4073, CVE-2010-4075, CVE-2010-4080,    CVE-2010-4081, CVE-2010-4083, CVE-2010-4157, CVE-2010-4158,    CVE-2010-4161, CVE-2010-4238, CVE-2010-4242, CVE-2010-4243,    CVE-2010-4247, CVE-2010-4248, CVE-2010-4249, CVE-2010-4251,    CVE-2010-4255, CVE-2010-4263, CVE-2010-4343, CVE-2010-4346,    CVE-2010-4526, CVE-2010-4655, CVE-2011-0521, CVE-2011-0710,    CVE-2011-1010, CVE-2011-1090 and CVE-2011-1478 to these issues.

b. ESX third-party update for Service Console krb5 RPMs

   This patch updates the krb5-libs and krb5-workstation RPMs of the    console OS to version 1.6.1-55.el5_6.1, which resolves multiple    security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2010-1323, CVE-2011-0281, and CVE-2011-0282    to these issues.

c. ESXi and ESX update to third-party component glibc

   The glibc third-party library is updated to resolve multiple    security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2010-0296, CVE-2011-0536, CVE-2011-1071,    CVE-2011-1095, CVE-2011-1658, and CVE-2011-1659 to these issues.

d. ESX update to third-party drivers mptsas, mpt2sas, and mptspi

   The mptsas, mpt2sas, and mptspi drivers are updated which addresses    multiple security issues in the mpt2sas driver.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2011-1494 and CVE-2011-1495 to these issues.

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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.

[Update 6 December 2010] The package list in this erratum has been updated to include the kernel-doc packages for the IA32 architecture.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security fixes :

* A flaw in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3432, Important)

* A missing integer overflow check in snd_ctl_new() in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem could allow a local, unprivileged user on a 32-bit system to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3442, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2010-3442.

Bug fixes :

* Forward time drift was observed on virtual machines using PM timer-based kernel tick accounting and running on KVM or the Microsoft Hyper-V Server hypervisor. Virtual machines that were booted with the divider=x kernel parameter set to a value greater than 1 and that showed the following in the kernel boot messages were subject to this issue :

time.c: Using PM based timekeeping

Fine grained accounting for the PM timer is introduced which eliminates this issue. However, this fix uncovered a bug in the Xen hypervisor, possibly causing backward time drift. If this erratum is installed in Xen HVM guests that meet the aforementioned conditions, it is recommended that the host use kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 or newer, which includes a fix (BZ#641915) for the backward time drift.
(BZ#629237)

* With multipath enabled, systems would occasionally halt when the do_cciss_request function was used. This was caused by wrongly-generated requests. Additional checks have been added to avoid the aforementioned issue. (BZ#640193)

* A Sun X4200 system equipped with a QLogic HBA spontaneously rebooted and logged a Hyper-Transport Sync Flood Error to the system event log.
A Maximum Memory Read Byte Count restriction was added to fix this bug. (BZ#640919)

* For an active/backup bonding network interface with VLANs on top of it, when a link failed over, it took a minute for the multicast domain to be rejoined. This was caused by the driver not sending any IGMP join packets. The driver now sends IGMP join packets and the multicast domain is rejoined immediately. (BZ#641002)

* Replacing a disk and trying to rebuild it afterwards caused the system to panic. When a domain validation request for a hot plugged drive was sent, the mptscsi driver did not validate its existence.
This could result in the driver accessing random memory and causing the crash. A check has been added that describes the newly-added device and reloads the iocPg3 data from the firmware if needed.
(BZ#641137)

* An attempt to create a VLAN interface on a bond of two bnx2 adapters in two switch configurations resulted in a soft lockup after a few seconds. This was caused by an incorrect use of a bonding pointer.
With this update, soft lockups no longer occur and creating a VLAN interface works as expected. (BZ#641254)

* Erroneous pointer checks could have caused a kernel panic. This was due to a critical value not being copied when a network buffer was duplicated and consumed by multiple portions of the kernel's network stack. Fixing the copy operation resolved this bug. (BZ#642746)

* A typo in a variable name caused it to be dereferenced in either mkdir() or create() which could cause a kernel panic. (BZ#643342)

* SCSI high level drivers can submit SCSI commands which would never be completed when the device was offline. This was caused by a missing callback for the request to complete the given command. SCSI requests are now terminated by calling their callback when a device is offline.
(BZ#644816)

* A kernel panic could have occurred on systems due to a recursive lock in the 3c59x driver. Recursion is now avoided and this kernel panic no longer occurs. (BZ#648407)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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 :

* A flaw was found in sctp_packet_config() in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3432, Important)

* A missing integer overflow check was found in snd_ctl_new() in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem. A local, unprivileged user on a 32-bit system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3442, Important)

* A heap overflow flaw in the Linux kernel's Transparent Inter-Process Communication protocol (TIPC) implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3859, Important)

* An integer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3865, Important)

* A flaw was found in the Xenbus code for the unified block-device I/O interface back end. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host system running the Xen hypervisor. (CVE-2010-3699, Moderate)

* Missing sanity checks were found in setup_arg_pages() in the Linux kernel. When making the size of the argument and environment area on the stack very large, it could trigger a BUG_ON(), resulting in a local denial of service. (CVE-2010-3858, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in inet_csk_diag_dump() in the Linux kernel's module for monitoring the sockets of INET transport protocols. By sending a netlink message with certain bytecode, a local, unprivileged user could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880, Moderate)

* Missing sanity checks were found in gdth_ioctl_alloc() in the gdth driver in the Linux kernel. A local user with access to '/dev/gdth' on a 64-bit system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4157, Moderate)

* The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 484590 as provided in RHSA-2009:1243 introduced a regression. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4161, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Bluetooth HCI UART driver in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4242, Moderate)

* It was found that a malicious guest running on the Xen hypervisor could place invalid data in the memory that the guest shared with the blkback and blktap back-end drivers, resulting in a denial of service on the host system. (CVE-2010-4247, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's CPU time clocks implementation for the POSIX clock interface. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4248, Moderate)

* Missing initialization flaws in the Linux kernel could lead to information leaks. (CVE-2010-3876, CVE-2010-4083, Low)

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2010-3442, CVE-2010-4161, and CVE-2010-4083; Thomas Pollet for reporting CVE-2010-3865; Brad Spengler for reporting CVE-2010-3858; Nelson Elhage for reporting CVE-2010-3880; Alan Cox for reporting CVE-2010-4242; and Vasiliy Kulikov for reporting CVE-2010-3876.

This update also fixes several bugs and adds an enhancement.
Documentation for the bug fixes and the enhancement will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document, linked to in the References section.

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues, and fix the bugs and add the enhancement noted in the Technical Notes. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2010-2963     Kees Cook discovered an issue in the v4l 32-bit     compatibility layer for 64-bit systems that allows local     users with /dev/video write permission to overwrite     arbitrary kernel memory, potentially leading to a     privilege escalation. On Debian systems, access to     /dev/video devices is restricted to members of the     'video' group by default.

  - CVE-2010-3067     Tavis Ormandy discovered an issue in the io_submit     system call. Local users can cause an integer overflow     resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2010-3296     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the cxgb network     driver that allows unprivileged users to obtain the     contents of sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3297     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the eql network     driver that allows local users to obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3310     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ROSE socket     implementation. On systems with a rose device, local     users can cause a denial of service (kernel memory     corruption).

  - CVE-2010-3432     Thomas Dreibholz discovered an issue in the SCTP     protocol that permits a remote user to cause a denial of     service (kernel panic).

  - CVE-2010-3437     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the pktcdvd driver.
    Local users with permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control     can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory or     cause a denial of service. By default on Debian systems,     this access is restricted to members of the group     'cdrom'.

  - CVE-2010-3442     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA sound     system. Local users with permission to open     /dev/snd/controlC0 can create an integer overflow     condition that causes a denial of service. By default on     Debian systems, this access is restricted to members of     the group 'audio'.

  - CVE-2010-3448     Dan Jacobson reported an issue in the thinkpad-acpi     driver. On certain Thinkpad systems, local users can     cause a denial of service (X.org crash) by reading     /proc/acpi/ibm/video.

  - CVE-2010-3477     Jeff Mahoney discovered an issue in the Traffic Policing     (act_police) module that allows local users to obtain     the contents of sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3705     Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the HMAC processing     code in the SCTP protocol that allows remote users to     create a denial of service (memory corruption).

  - CVE-2010-3848     Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the Econet     protocol. Local users can cause a stack overflow     condition with large msg->msgiovlen values that can     result in a denial of service or privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2010-3849     Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the Econet     protocol. Local users can cause a denial of service     (oops) if a NULL remote addr value is passed as a     parameter to sendmsg().

  - CVE-2010-3850     Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the Econet     protocol. Local users can assign econet addresses to     arbitrary interfaces due to a missing capabilities     check.

  - CVE-2010-3858     Brad Spengler reported an issue in the setup_arg_pages()     function. Due to a bounds-checking failure, local users     can create a denial of service (kernel oops).

  - CVE-2010-3859     Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the TIPC protocol.
    When the tipc module is loaded, local users can gain     elevated privileges via the sendmsg() system call.

  - CVE-2010-3873     Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the X.25 network     protocol. Local users can cause heap corruption,     resulting in a denial of service (kernel panic).

  - CVE-2010-3874     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the Control Area     Network (CAN) subsystem on 64-bit systems. Local users     may be able to cause a denial of service (heap     corruption).

  - CVE-2010-3875     Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the AX.25     protocol. Local users can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3876     Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Packet     protocol. Local users can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3877     Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the TIPC     protocol. Local users can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-3880     Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the INET_DIAG     subsystem. Local users can cause the kernel to execute     unaudited INET_DIAG bytecode, resulting in a denial of     service.

  - CVE-2010-4072     Kees Cook discovered an issue in the System V shared     memory subsystem. Local users can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-4073     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the System V shared     memory subsystem. Local users on 64-bit system can     obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the     32-bit compatible semctl() system call.

  - CVE-2010-4074     Dan Rosenberg reported issues in the mos7720 and mos7840     drivers for USB serial converter devices. Local users     with access to these devices can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2010-4078     Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the framebuffer     driver for SiS graphics chipsets (sisfb). Local users     with access to the framebuffer device can obtain the     contents of sensitive kernel memory via the     FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl.

  - CVE-2010-4079     Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the ivtvfb driver     used for the Hauppauge PVR-350 card. Local users with     access to the framebuffer device can obtain the contents     of sensitive kernel memory via the FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl.

  - CVE-2010-4080     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA driver for     RME Hammerfall DSP audio devices. Local users with     access to the audio device can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory via the     SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.

  - CVE-2010-4081     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA driver for     RME Hammerfall DSP MADI audio devices. Local users with     access to the audio device can obtain the contents of     sensitive kernel memory via the     SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.

  - CVE-2010-4083     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the semctl system     call. Local users can obtain the contents of sensitive     kernel memory through usage of the semid_ds structure.

  - CVE-2010-4164     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the X.25 network     protocol. Remote users can achieve a denial of service     (infinite loop) by taking advantage of an integer     underflow in the facility parsing code.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0842 advisory.

  - kernel: drm ioctls infoleak (CVE-2010-2803)

  - kernel: wireless: fix 64K kernel heap content leak via ioctl (CVE-2010-2955)

  - kernel: arbitrary kernel memory write via i915 GEM ioctl (CVE-2010-2962)

  - kernel: ftrace NULL ptr deref (CVE-2010-3079)

  - kernel: 64-bit Compatibility Mode Stack Pointer Underflow (CVE-2010-3081)

  - kernel: niu: buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL (CVE-2010-3084)

  - kernel: IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3301)

  - kernel: sctp: do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config (CVE-2010-3432)

  - kernel: pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor missing range check (CVE-2010-3437)

  - kernel: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new() (CVE-2010-3442)

  - kvm: invalid selector in fs/gs causes kernel panic (CVE-2010-3698)

  - kernel: sctp memory corruption in HMAC handling (CVE-2010-3705)

  - kernel: RDS sockets local privilege escalation (CVE-2010-3904)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3904)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the TTY driver. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-4895)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the MOVE_EXT ext4 ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could overwrite append-only files, leading to potential data loss. (CVE-2010-2066)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the swapexit xfs ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to read from write-only files, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2226)

Suresh Jayaraman discovered that CIFS did not correctly validate certain response packats. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2248)

Ben Hutchings discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly check certain sizes. A local attacker could perform malicious ioctl calls that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2478, CVE-2010-3084)

James Chapman discovered that L2TP did not correctly evaluate checksum capabilities. If an attacker could make malicious routing changes, they could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2495)

Neil Brown discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly check certain write requests. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that could crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-2521)

David Howells discovered that DNS resolution in CIFS could be spoofed.
A local attacker could exploit this to control DNS replies, leading to a loss of privacy and possible privilege escalation. (CVE-2010-2524)

Dan Rosenberg discovered a flaw in gfs2 file system's handling of acls (access control lists). An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain access or execute any file stored in the gfs2 file system. (CVE-2010-2525)

Bob Peterson discovered that GFS2 rename operations did not correctly validate certain sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2798)

Eric Dumazet discovered that many network functions could leak kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2942, CVE-2010-3477)

Sergey Vlasov discovered that JFS did not correctly handle certain extended attributes. A local attacker could bypass namespace access rules, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2946)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to crash or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2954)

Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2955)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2960)

Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2963)

Toshiyuki Okajima discovered that ext4 did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or overwrite the last block of large files. (CVE-2010-3015)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the AIO subsystem did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3067)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain XFS ioctls leaked kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3078)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3080)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ROSE driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker with access to a ROSE network device could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3310)

Thomas Dreibholz discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle appending packet chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3432)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3437)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Sound subsystem did not correctly validate parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3442)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3705)

Joel Becker discovered that OCFS2 did not correctly validate on-disk symlink structures. If an attacker were able to trick a user or automated system into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, it could crash the system or expose kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-NNN2).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2011-0004.

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2010-0936.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
89680	VMware ESX / ESXi Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2011-0012) (remote check)	Nessus	Misc.	high
79507	OracleVM 2.2 : kernel (OVMSA-2013-0039)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	high
75553	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0004-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
68176	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0004)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68175	Oracle Linux 5 : Unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2010-2011)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68153	Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0936)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
65101	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1083-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
65103	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1093-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
60929	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
60912	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
60893	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
56508	VMSA-2011-0012 : VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third-party libraries and ESX Service Console	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	high
51775	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2010:0936)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
51426	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2011:0004)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
51417	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0004)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
50871	RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0936)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
50825	Debian DSA-2126-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
50629	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0842)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
50044	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-ec2, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-1000-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
801502	CentOS RHSA-2011-0004 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high
801501	CentOS RHSA-2010-0936 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high

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