net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34, when addip_enable and auth_enable are used, does not consider the amount of zero padding during calculation of chunk lengths for (1) INIT and (2) INIT ACK chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted packet data.

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

  - COS kernel
  - cURL
  - python
  - rpm

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 remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2015 advisory.

    - sctp: fix to calc the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length correctly is set {CVE-2011-1573}
    - dccp: fix oops on Reset after close {CVE-2011-1093}
    - bridge: netfilter: fix information leak {CVE-2011-1080}
    - Bluetooth: bnep: fix buffer overflow {CVE-2011-1079}
    - net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules {CVE-2011-1019}
    - drm/radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 {CVE-2011-1016}
    - drm/radeon: fix regression with AA resolve checking {CVE-2011-1016}
    - drm: fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl {CVE-2011-1013}
    - proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat {CVE-2011-0726}
    - ALSA: caiaq - Fix possible string-buffer overflow {CVE-2011-0712}
    - xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls {CVE-2011-0711}
    - xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 {CVE-2011-0711}
    - ima: fix add LSM rule bug {CVE-2011-0006}
    - IB/uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ {CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044}
    - CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file {CVE-2010-4565}

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-2011-0927 advisory.

    - Revert: [xen] hvm: svm support cleanups (Andrew Jones) [703715 702657] {CVE-2011-1780}
    - Revert: [xen] hvm: secure svm_cr_access (Andrew Jones) [703715 702657] {CVE-2011-1780}
    - [net] bluetooth: l2cap and rfcomm: fix info leak to userspace (Thomas Graf) [703020 703021]     {CVE-2011-2492}
    - [net] inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit data validation (Thomas Graf) [714538 714539] {CVE-2011-2213}
    - [misc] signal: fix kill signal spoofing issue (Oleg Nesterov) [690030 690031] {CVE-2011-1182}
    - [fs] proc: fix signedness issue in next_pidmap (Oleg Nesterov) [697826 697827] {CVE-2011-1593}
    - [char] agp: fix OOM and buffer overflow (Jerome Marchand) [699009 699010] {CVE-2011-1746}
    - [char] agp: fix arbitrary kernel memory writes (Jerome Marchand) [699005 699006] {CVE-2011-2022     CVE-2011-1745}
    - [infiniband] core: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ (Jay Fenlason) [668370 668371]     {CVE-2011-1044 CVE-2010-4649}
    - [infiniband] core: fix panic in ib_cm:cm_work_handler (Jay Fenlason) [679995 679996] {CVE-2011-0695}
    - [fs] validate size of EFI GUID partition entries (Anton Arapov) [703027 703028] {CVE-2011-1776}
    - [xen] hvm: secure vmx cpuid (Andrew Jones) [706324 706323] {CVE-2011-1936}
    - [xen] hvm: secure svm_cr_access (Andrew Jones) [703715 702657] {CVE-2011-1780}
    - [xen] hvm: svm support cleanups (Andrew Jones) [703715 702657] {CVE-2011-1780}
    - [net] sctp: fix calc of INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length to set (Thomas Graf) [695384 695385] {CVE-2011-1573}
    - [fs] xfs: prevent leaking uninit stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 p2 (Phillip Lougher) [677265 677266]     {CVE-2011-0711}
    - [fs] xfs: prevent leaking uninit stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 (Phillip Lougher) [677265 677266]     {CVE-2011-0711}
    - [net] core: Fix memory leak/corruption on VLAN GRO_DROP (Herbert Xu) [695174 691565] {CVE-2011-1576}

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 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0498 advisory.

    - [drm] radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 + regression fix (Dave Airlie) [680001 680002]     {CVE-2011-1016}
    - [infiniband] uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ (Eugene Teo) [688429 696137]     {CVE-2011-1044 CVE-2010-4649}
    - [net] sctp: fix the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length calculation (Thomas Graf) [695386 690743] {CVE-2011-1573}
    - [net] CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file (Danny Feng) [664560 664561]     {CVE-2010-4565}
    - [fs] inotify: fix double free/corruption of stuct user (Eric Paris) [656831 656832] {CVE-2010-4250}
    - [fs] inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure (Eric Paris) [656831 656832]     {CVE-2010-4250}
    - [net] fix ebtables stack infoleak (Eugene Teo) [681322 681323] {CVE-2011-1080}
    - [drm] fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl (Don Howard) [679927 679928]     {CVE-2011-1013}
    - [net] bnep: fix buffer overflow (Don Howard) [681315 681316] {CVE-2011-1079}
    - [kernel] CAP_SYS_MODULE bypass via CAP_NET_ADMIN (Phillip Lougher) [681772 681773] {CVE-2011-1019}
    - [kernel] failure to revert address limit override in OOPS error path (Dave Anderson) [659572 659573]     {CVE-2010-4258}
    - [fs] xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls (Phillip Lougher) [677267 677268]     {CVE-2011-0711}
    - [fs] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 (Phillip Lougher) [677267 677268]     {CVE-2011-0711}
    - [kernel] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat (Eugene Teo) [684572 684573]     {CVE-2011-0726}
    - [net] dccp oops (Eugene Teo) [682957 682958] {CVE-2011-1093}
    - [security] ima: fix add LSM rule bug (Eric Paris) [667914 667915] {CVE-2011-0006}
    - [sound] caiaq: Fix possible string buffer overflow (Jaroslav Kysela) [678475 678476] {CVE-2011-0712}

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

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649,     Important)

  - A race condition in the way new InfiniBand connections     were set up could allow a remote user to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2011-0695, Important)

  - A flaw in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to     cause a denial of service if the sysctl     'net.sctp.addip_enable' variable was turned on (it is     off by default). (CVE-2011-1573, Important)

  - Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling     certain IOCTL commands could allow a local, unprivileged     user to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important)

  - An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746,     Important)

  - A flaw allowed napi_reuse_skb() to be called on VLAN     (virtual LAN) packets. An attacker on the local network     could trigger this flaw by sending specially crafted     packets to a target system, possibly causing a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-1576, Moderate)

  - An integer signedness error in next_pidmap() could allow     a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2011-1593, Moderate)

  - A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation     handled CPUID instruction emulation during virtual     machine exits could allow an unprivileged guest user to     crash a guest. This only affects systems that have an     Intel x86 processor with the Intel VT-x extension     enabled. (CVE-2011-1936, Moderate)

  - A flaw in inet_diag_bc_audit() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop). (CVE-2011-2213, Moderate)

  - A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system     implementation could lead to an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

  - A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to cause an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

  - A missing validation check was found in the signals     implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use     this flaw to send signals via the sigqueueinfo system     call, with the si_code set to SI_TKILL and with spoofed     process and user IDs, to other processes. Note: This     flaw does not allow existing permission checks to be     bypassed; signals can only be sent if your privileges     allow you to already do so. (CVE-2011-1182, Low)

  - A heap overflow flaw in the EFI GUID Partition Table     (GPT) implementation could allow a local attacker to     cause a denial of service by mounting a disk containing     specially crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1776, Low)

  - Structure padding in two structures in the Bluetooth     implementation was not initialized properly before being     copied to user-space, possibly allowing local,     unprivileged users to leak kernel stack memory to     user-space. (CVE-2011-2492, Low)

This update fixes several bugs.

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

Security fixes :

  - An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649,     Important)

  - An integer signedness flaw in drm_modeset_ctl() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1013,     Important)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel were missing     sanity checks for the Anti Aliasing (AA) resolve     register values which could allow a local, unprivileged     user to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges on systems using a graphics card from the ATI     Radeon R300, R400, or R500 family of cards.
    (CVE-2011-1016, Important)

  - A flaw in dccp_rcv_state_process() could allow a remote     attacker to cause a denial of service, even when the     socket was already closed. (CVE-2011-1093, Important)

  - A flaw in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission     Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote     attacker to cause a denial of service if the sysctl     'net.sctp.addip_enable' and 'auth_enable' variables were     turned on (they are off by default). (CVE-2011-1573,     Important)

  - A memory leak in the inotify_init() system call. In some     cases, it could leak a group, which could allow a local,     unprivileged user to eventually cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2010-4250, Moderate)

  - A missing validation of a null-terminated string data     structure element in bnep_sock_ioctl() could allow a     local user to cause an information leak or a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-1079, Moderate)

  - An information leak in bcm_connect() in the Controller     Area Network (CAN) Broadcast Manager implementation     could allow a local, unprivileged user to leak kernel     mode addresses in '/proc/net/can-bcm'. (CVE-2010-4565,     Low)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Integrity     Measurement Architecture (IMA) implementation. When     SELinux was disabled, adding an IMA rule which was     supposed to be processed by SELinux would cause     ima_match_rules() to always succeed, ignoring any     remaining rules. (CVE-2011-0006, Low)

  - A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system     implementation could lead to an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

  - Buffer overflow flaws in snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init() and     snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init() could allow a local,     unprivileged user with access to a Native Instruments     USB audio device to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-0712, Low)

  - The start_code and end_code values in '/proc/[pid]/stat'     were not protected. In certain scenarios, this flaw     could be used to defeat Address Space Layout     Randomization (ASLR). (CVE-2011-0726, Low)

  - A flaw in dev_load() could allow a local user who has     the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to load arbitrary modules     from '/lib/modules/', instead of only netdev modules.
    (CVE-2011-1019, Low)

  - A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to cause an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

  - A missing validation of a null-terminated string data     structure element in do_replace() could allow a local     user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to cause an     information leak. (CVE-2011-1080, Low)

This update also fixes various bugs.

This update also adds an enhancement.

  - This update provides VLAN null tagging support (VLAN ID     0 can be used in tags).

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

This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in     fs/partitions/ldm.c) contained bugs that could crash the     kernel for certain corrupted LDM partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1017 / CVE-2011-1012)

  - Boundschecking was missing in AARESOLVE_OFFSET, which     allowed local attackers to overwrite kernel memory and     so escalate privileges or crash the kernel.
    (CVE-2011-1573)

  - When using a setuid root mount.cifs, local users could     hijack password protected mounted CIFS shares of other     local users. (CVE-2011-1585)

  - Kernel information via the TPM devices could by used by     local attackers to read kernel memory. (CVE-2011-1160)

  - The Linux kernel automatically evaluated partition     tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating EFI     GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c) contained a bug     that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted GUID     partition tables, which might be used by local attackers     to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.
    (CVE-2011-1577)

  - In the IrDA module, length fields provided by a peer for     names and attributes may be longer than the destination     array sizes and were not checked, this allowed local     attackers (close to the irda port) to potentially     corrupt memory. (CVE-2011-1180)

  - A system out of memory condition (denial of service)     could be triggered with a large socket backlog,     exploitable by local users. This has been addressed by     backlog limiting. (CVE-2010-4251)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate data related to the AA resolve     registers, which allowed local users to write to     arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM     (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT)     via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it     was possible for a remote host to provide more     digipeaters than expected, resulting in heap corruption.
    (CVE-2011-1493)

  - Local attackers could send signals to their programs     that looked like coming from the kernel, potentially     gaining privileges in the context of setuid programs.
    (CVE-2011-1182)

  - The code for evaluating Mac partitions (in     fs/partitions/mac.c) contained a bug that could crash     the kernel for certain corrupted Mac partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1010)

  - The code for evaluating OSF partitions (in     fs/partitions/osf.c) contained a bug that leaks data     from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain     corrupted OSF partitions. (CVE-2011-1163)

  - Specially crafted requests may be written to     /dev/sequencer resulting in an underflow when     calculating a size for a copy_from_user() operation in     the driver for MIDI interfaces. On x86, this just     returns an error, but it could have caused memory     corruption on other architectures. Other malformed     requests could have resulted in the use of uninitialized     variables. (CVE-2011-1476)

  - Due to a failure to validate user-supplied indexes in     the driver for Yamaha YM3812 and OPL-3 chips, a     specially crafted ioctl request could have been sent to     /dev/sequencer, resulting in reading and writing beyond     the bounds of heap buffers, and potentially allowing     privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

  - A information leak in the XFS geometry calls could be     used by local attackers to gain access to kernel     information. (CVE-2011-0191)

  - The sctp_rcv_ootb function in the SCTP implementation in     the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (infinite loop) via (1) an Out Of The     Blue (OOTB) chunk or (2) a chunk of zero length.
    (CVE-2010-0008)

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel      The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) kernel is updated to    kernel-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 to fix multiple security issues in the    COS kernel.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2011-0726, CVE-2011-1078, CVE-2011-1079,    CVE-2011-1080, CVE-2011-1093, CVE-2011-1163, CVE-2011-1166,    CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1494,    CVE-2011-1495, CVE-2011-1577, CVE-2011-1763, CVE-2010-4649,    CVE-2011-0695, CVE-2011-0711, CVE-2011-1044, CVE-2011-1182,    CVE-2011-1573, CVE-2011-1576, CVE-2011-1593, CVE-2011-1745,    CVE-2011-1746, CVE-2011-1776, CVE-2011-1936, CVE-2011-2022,    CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2492, CVE-2011-1780, CVE-2011-2525,    CVE-2011-2689, CVE-2011-2482, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2495,    CVE-2011-2517, CVE-2011-2519, CVE-2011-2901 to these issues.
  b. ESX third-party update for Service Console cURL RPM      The ESX Service Console (COS) curl RPM is updated to cURL-7.15.5.9    resolving a security issues.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the name CVE-2011-2192 to this issue.
  c. ESX third-party update for Service Console nspr and nss RPMs      The ESX Service Console (COS) nspr and nss RPMs are updated to    nspr-4.8.8-1.el5_7 and nss-3.12.10-4.el5_7 respectively resolving    a security issues.
     A Certificate Authority (CA) issued fraudulent SSL certificates and    Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) and Network Security Services (NSS)    contain the built-in tokens of this fraudulent Certificate    Authority. This update renders all SSL certificates signed by the    fraudulent CA as untrusted for all uses.
  d. ESX third-party update for Service Console rpm RPMs      The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) rpm packages are    updated to popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5_7.2, rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2,    rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2 and rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2    which fixes multiple security issues.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2010-2059 and CVE-2011-3378 to these    issues.
  e. ESX third-party update for Service Console samba RPMs      The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) samba packages are    updated to samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4,    samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4 and    libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4 which fixes multiple security    issues in the Samba client.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2010-0787, CVE-2011-1678,    CVE-2011-2522 and CVE-2011-2694 to these issues.
     Note that ESX does not include the Samba Web Administration Tool    (SWAT) and therefore ESX COS is not affected by CVE-2011-2522 and    CVE-2011-2694.
  f. ESX third-party update for Service Console python package      The ESX Service Console (COS) python package is updated to    2.4.3-44 which fixes multiple security issues.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2009-3720, CVE-2010-3493, CVE-2011-1015 and    CVE-2011-1521 to these issues.
  g. ESXi update to third-party component python      The python third-party library is updated to python 2.5.6 which    fixes multiple security issues.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the names CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720, CVE-2010-1634,    CVE-2010-2089, and CVE-2011-1521 to these issues.

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080)

Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093)

Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478)

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1479)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577)

Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password.
(CVE-2011-1585)

It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767)

It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768)

Ben Greear discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle direct I/O. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel's handling of corrupt LDM partitions. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. (CVE-2011-2182)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on '/dev/zero' was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2479)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484)

It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2011-2492)

Sami Liedes discovered that ext4 did not correctly handle missing root inodes. A local attacker could trigger the mount of a specially crafted filesystem to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2493)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that GFS2 did not correctly check block sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2689)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Qianfeng Zhang discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2942)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yasuaki Ishimatsu discovered a flaw in the kernel's clock implementation. A local unprivileged attacker could exploit this causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3209)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's AppArmor security interface when invalid information was written to it. An unprivileged local user could use this to cause a denial of service on the system.
(CVE-2011-3619)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's /proc/*/*map* interface. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3637)

Scot Doyle discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4087)

A bug was found in the way headroom check was performed in udp6_ufo_fragment() function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-4326)

Ben Hutchings discovered several flaws in the Linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2011-4914).

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.

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

It was discovered that the Auerswald usb driver incorrectly handled lengths of the USB string descriptors. A local attacker with physical access could insert a specially crafted USB device and gain root privileges. (CVE-2009-4067)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188).

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.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs 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 :

* An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, Important)

* A race condition in the way new InfiniBand connections were set up could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-0695, Important)

* A flaw in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service if the sysctl 'net.sctp.addip_enable' variable was turned on (it is off by default). (CVE-2011-1573, Important)

* Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important)

* An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746, Important)

* A flaw allowed napi_reuse_skb() to be called on VLAN (virtual LAN) packets. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by sending specially crafted packets to a target system, possibly causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1576, Moderate)

* An integer signedness error in next_pidmap() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1593, Moderate)

* A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation handled CPUID instruction emulation during virtual machine exits could allow an unprivileged guest user to crash a guest. This only affects systems that have an Intel x86 processor with the Intel VT-x extension enabled. (CVE-2011-1936, Moderate)

* A flaw in inet_diag_bc_audit() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). (CVE-2011-2213, Moderate)

* A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system implementation could lead to an information leak. (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

* A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

* A missing validation check was found in the signals implementation.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to send signals via the sigqueueinfo system call, with the si_code set to SI_TKILL and with spoofed process and user IDs, to other processes. Note: This flaw does not allow existing permission checks to be bypassed; signals can only be sent if your privileges allow you to already do so. (CVE-2011-1182, Low)

* A heap overflow flaw in the EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT) implementation could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service by mounting a disk containing specially crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1776, Low)

* Structure padding in two structures in the Bluetooth implementation was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space, possibly allowing local, unprivileged users to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. (CVE-2011-2492, Low)

Red Hat would like to thank Jens Kuehnel for reporting CVE-2011-0695;
Vasiliy Kulikov for reporting CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, and CVE-2011-1746; Ryan Sweat for reporting CVE-2011-1576; Robert Swiecki for reporting CVE-2011-1593; Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-2213 and CVE-2011-0711; Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team for reporting CVE-2011-1182; Timo Warns for reporting CVE-2011-1776; and Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian for reporting CVE-2011-2492.

Bug fix documentation will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0927 advisory.

  - kernel: IB/uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044)

  - kernel: panic in ib_cm:cm_work_handler (CVE-2011-0695)

  - kernel: xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 (CVE-2011-0711)

  - kernel signal spoofing issue (CVE-2011-1182)

  - kernel: sctp: fix to calc the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length correctly to set (CVE-2011-1573)

  - kernel: net: Fix memory leak/corruption on VLAN GRO_DROP (CVE-2011-1576)

  - kernel: proc: signedness issue in next_pidmap() (CVE-2011-1593)

  - kernel: agp: insufficient pg_start parameter checking in AGPIOC_BIND and AGPIOC_UNBIND ioctls     (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022)

  - kernel: agp: insufficient page_count parameter checking in agp_allocate_memory() (CVE-2011-1746)

  - kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entries (CVE-2011-1776)

  - kernel: xen: vmx: insecure cpuid vmexit (CVE-2011-1936)

  - kernel: inet_diag: insufficient validation (CVE-2011-2213)

  - kernel: bluetooth: l2cap and rfcomm: fix 1 byte infoleak to userspace (CVE-2011-2492)

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

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)

Alexander Duyck discovered that the Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver did not correctly handle certain configurations. If such a device was configured without VLANs, a remote attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4263)

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4342)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4529)

Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit.
(CVE-2010-4565)

Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0463)

Jens Kuehnel discovered that the InfiniBand driver contained a race condition. On systems using InfiniBand, a local attacker could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-0695)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that XFS did not correctly initialize memory.
A local attacker could make crafted ioctl calls to leak portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0711)

Kees Cook reported that /proc/pid/stat did not correctly filter certain memory locations. A local attacker could determine the memory layout of processes in an attempt to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit. (CVE-2011-0726)

Matthiew Herrb discovered that the drm modeset interface did not correctly handle a signed comparison. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2011-1013)

Marek Olsak discovered that the Radeon GPU drivers did not correctly validate certain registers. On systems with specific hardware, a local attacker could exploit this to write to arbitrary video memory.
(CVE-2011-1016)

Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values. By inserting a specially crafted disk device, a local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1017)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability was not needed to load kernel modules. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could load existing kernel modules, possibly increasing the attack surface available on the system. (CVE-2011-1019)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080)

Neil Horman discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly handle certain orders of operation with ACL data. A remote attacker with access to an NFSv4 mount could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1090)

Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160)

Timo Warns discovered that OSF partition parsing routines did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to read kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1163)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1173)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180)

Julien Tinnes discovered that the kernel did not correctly validate the signal structure from tkill(). A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to arbitrary threads, possibly bypassing expected restrictions. (CVE-2011-1182)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the OSS (Open Sound System) MIDI interface. A local attacker on non-x86 systems might be able to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1476)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the kernel's OSS (Open Sound System) driver for Yamaha FM synthesizer chips. A local user can exploit this to cause memory corruption, causing a denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that MPT devices did not correctly validate certain values in ioctl calls. If these drivers were loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the pidmap function did not correctly handle large requests. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1593)

Oliver Hartkopp and Dave Jones discovered that the CAN network driver did not correctly validate certain socket structures. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1598, CVE-2011-1748)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check certain ioctl values. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check the size of certain memory allocations. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to run the system out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1746)

Dan Rosenberg reported an error in the old ABI compatibility layer of ARM kernels. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1759)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the DCCP stack did not correctly handle certain packet structures. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1770)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

A flaw was found in the b43 driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service if the system has an active wireless interface using the b43 driver. (CVE-2011-3359)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

Maynard Johnson discovered that on POWER7, certain speculative events may raise a performance monitor exception. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-4611)

Dan Rosenberg discovered flaws in the linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer used by amateur radio. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root.
(CVE-2011-4913).

This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - Multiple integer overflows in the next_pidmap function     in kernel/pid.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a     crafted (1) getdents or (2) readdir system call.
    (CVE-2011-1593)

  - Only half of the fix for this vulnerability was only     applied, the fix was completed now. Original text:
    drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c in the e1000 driver in     the Linux kernel handled Ethernet frames that exceed the     MTU by processing certain trailing payload data as if it     were a complete frame, which allows remote attackers to     bypass packet filters via a large packet with a crafted     payload. (CVE-2009-4536)

  - Boundschecking was missing in AARESOLVE_OFFSET in the     SCTP protocol, which allowed local attackers to     overwrite kernel memory and so escalate privileges or     crash the kernel. (CVE-2011-1573)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the ldm_frag_add function     in fs/partitions/ldm.c in the Linux kernel might have     allowed local users to gain privileges or obtain     sensitive information via a crafted LDM partition table.
    (CVE-2011-1017)

  - When using a setuid root mount.cifs, local users could     hijack password protected mounted CIFS shares of other     local users. (CVE-2011-1585)

  - Kernel information via the TPM devices could by used by     local attackers to read kernel memory. (CVE-2011-1160)

  - The Linux kernel automatically evaluated partition     tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating EFI     GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c) contained a bug     that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted GUID     partition tables, which might be used by local attackers     to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.
    (CVE-2011-1577)

  - In the IrDA module, length fields provided by a peer for     names and attributes may be longer than the destination     array sizes and were not checked, this allowed local     attackers (close to the irda port) to potentially     corrupt memory. (CVE-2011-1180)

  - A system out of memory condition (denial of service)     could be triggered with a large socket backlog,     exploitable by local users. This has been addressed by     backlog limiting. (CVE-2010-4251)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate data related to the AA resolve     registers, which allowed local users to write to     arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM     (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT)     via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it     was possible for a remote host to provide more     digipeaters than expected, resulting in heap corruption.
    (CVE-2011-1493)

  - Local attackers could send signals to their programs     that looked like coming from the kernel, potentially     gaining privileges in the context of setuid programs.
    (CVE-2011-1182)

  - The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in     fs/partitions/ldm.c) contained bugs that could crash the     kernel for certain corrupted LDM partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1017 / CVE-2011-1012)

  - The code for evaluating Mac partitions (in     fs/partitions/mac.c) contained a bug that could crash     the kernel for certain corrupted Mac partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1010)

  - The code for evaluating OSF partitions (in     fs/partitions/osf.c) contained a bug that leaks data     from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain     corrupted OSF partitions. (CVE-2011-1163)

  - Specially crafted requests may be written to     /dev/sequencer resulting in an underflow when     calculating a size for a copy_from_user() operation in     the driver for MIDI interfaces. On x86, this just     returns an error, but it could have caused memory     corruption on other architectures. Other malformed     requests could have resulted in the use of uninitialized     variables. (CVE-2011-1476)

  - Due to a failure to validate user-supplied indexes in     the driver for Yamaha YM3812 and OPL-3 chips, a     specially crafted ioctl request could have been sent to     /dev/sequencer, resulting in reading and writing beyond     the bounds of heap buffers, and potentially allowing     privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

  - A information leak in the XFS geometry calls could be     used by local attackers to gain access to kernel     information. (CVE-2011-0191)

  - The sctp_rcv_ootb function in the SCTP implementation in     the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (infinite loop) via (1) an Out Of The     Blue (OOTB) chunk or (2) a chunk of zero length.
    (CVE-2010-0008)

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)

Alexander Duyck discovered that the Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver did not correctly handle certain configurations. If such a device was configured without VLANs, a remote attacker could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4263)

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4342)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4529)

Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit.
(CVE-2010-4565)

Kees Cook discovered that the IOWarrior USB device driver did not correctly check certain size fields. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4656)

Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0463)

Dan Carpenter discovered that the TTPCI DVB driver did not check certain values during an ioctl. If the dvb-ttpci module was loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0521)

Jens Kuehnel discovered that the InfiniBand driver contained a race condition. On systems using InfiniBand, a local attacker could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-0695)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that XFS did not correctly initialize memory.
A local attacker could make crafted ioctl calls to leak portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-0711)

Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that the caiaq Native Instruments USB driver did not correctly validate string lengths. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0712)

Kees Cook reported that /proc/pid/stat did not correctly filter certain memory locations. A local attacker could determine the memory layout of processes in an attempt to increase the chances of a successful memory corruption exploit. (CVE-2011-0726)

Timo Warns discovered that MAC partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1010)

Timo Warns discovered that LDM partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1012)

Matthiew Herrb discovered that the drm modeset interface did not correctly handle a signed comparison. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2011-1013)

Marek Olsak discovered that the Radeon GPU drivers did not correctly validate certain registers. On systems with specific hardware, a local attacker could exploit this to write to arbitrary video memory.
(CVE-2011-1016)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability was not needed to load kernel modules. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could load existing kernel modules, possibly increasing the attack surface available on the system. (CVE-2011-1019)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the epoll subsystem did not correctly handle certain structures. A local attacker could create malicious requests that would hang the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1082)

Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093)

Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1173)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180)

Julien Tinnes discovered that the kernel did not correctly validate the signal structure from tkill(). A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to arbitrary threads, possibly bypassing expected restrictions. (CVE-2011-1182)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the OSS (Open Sound System) MIDI interface. A local attacker on non-x86 systems might be able to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1476)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the kernel's OSS (Open Sound System) driver for Yamaha FM synthesizer chips. A local user can exploit this to cause memory corruption, causing a denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

A flaw was found in the b43 driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service if the system has an active wireless interface using the b43 driver. (CVE-2011-3359)

Maynard Johnson discovered that on POWER7, certain speculative events may raise a performance monitor exception. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-4611)

Dan Rosenberg discovered flaws in the linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer used by amateur radio. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root.
(CVE-2011-4913).

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.

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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

Security fixes :

* An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, Important)

* An integer signedness flaw in drm_modeset_ctl() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1013, Important)

* The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel were missing sanity checks for the Anti Aliasing (AA) resolve register values which could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges on systems using a graphics card from the ATI Radeon R300, R400, or R500 family of cards. (CVE-2011-1016, Important)

* A flaw in dccp_rcv_state_process() could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, even when the socket was already closed.
(CVE-2011-1093, Important)

* A flaw in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service if the sysctl 'net.sctp.addip_enable' and 'auth_enable' variables were turned on (they are off by default). (CVE-2011-1573, Important)

* A memory leak in the inotify_init() system call. In some cases, it could leak a group, which could allow a local, unprivileged user to eventually cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4250, Moderate)

* A missing validation of a null-terminated string data structure element in bnep_sock_ioctl() could allow a local user to cause an information leak or a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1079, Moderate)

* An information leak in bcm_connect() in the Controller Area Network (CAN) Broadcast Manager implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to leak kernel mode addresses in '/proc/net/can-bcm'. (CVE-2010-4565, Low)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) implementation. When SELinux was disabled, adding an IMA rule which was supposed to be processed by SELinux would cause ima_match_rules() to always succeed, ignoring any remaining rules.
(CVE-2011-0006, Low)

* A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system implementation could lead to an information leak. (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

* Buffer overflow flaws in snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init() and snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init() could allow a local, unprivileged user with access to a Native Instruments USB audio device to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-0712, Low)

* The start_code and end_code values in '/proc/[pid]/stat' were not protected. In certain scenarios, this flaw could be used to defeat Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). (CVE-2011-0726, Low)

* A flaw in dev_load() could allow a local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to load arbitrary modules from '/lib/modules/', instead of only netdev modules. (CVE-2011-1019, Low)

* A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

* A missing validation of a null-terminated string data structure element in do_replace() could allow a local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1080, Low)

Red Hat would like to thank Vegard Nossum for reporting CVE-2010-4250;
Vasiliy Kulikov for reporting CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-1019, and CVE-2011-1080; Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2010-4565 and CVE-2011-0711; Rafael Dominguez Vega for reporting CVE-2011-0712; and Kees Cook for reporting CVE-2011-0726.

This update also fixes various bugs and adds an enhancement.
Documentation for these changes 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 resolve 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.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.36 and fixes various bugs and security issues.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it     was possible for a remote host to provide more     digipeaters than expected, resulting in heap corruption.
    (CVE-2011-1493)

  - (no CVEs assigned yet): In the rose networking stack,     when parsing the FAC_CCITT_DEST_NSAP and     FAC_CCITT_SRC_NSAP facilities fields, a remote host     could provide a length of less than 10, resulting in an     underflow in a memcpy size, causing a kernel panic due     to massive heap corruption. A length of greater than 20     results in a stack overflow of the callsign array

  - The code for evaluating OSF partitions (in     fs/partitions/osf.c) contained a bug that leaks data     from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain     corrupted OSF partitions. (CVE-2011-1163)

  - A bug in the order of dccp_rcv_state_process() was fixed     that still permitted reception even after closing the     socket. A Reset after close thus causes a NULL pointer     dereference by not preventing operations on an already     torn-down socket. (CVE-2011-1093)

  - A signedness issue in drm_modeset_ctl() could be used by     local attackers with access to the drm devices to     potentially crash the kernel or escalate privileges.
    (CVE-2011-1013)

  - The epoll subsystem in Linux did not prevent users from     creating circular epoll file structures, potentially     leading to a denial of service (kernel deadlock).
    (CVE-2011-1082)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native     Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel     might have allowed attackers to cause a denial of     service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     long USB device name, related to (1) the     snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function in     sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the     snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in     sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c. (CVE-2011-0712)

  - Local attackers could send signals to their programs     that looked like coming from the kernel, potentially     gaining privileges in the context of setuid programs.
    (CVE-2011-1182)

  - An issue in the core GRO code where an skb belonging to     an unknown VLAN is reused could result in a NULL pointer     dereference. (CVE-2011-1478)

  - Specially crafted requests may be written to     /dev/sequencer resulting in an underflow when     calculating a size for a copy_from_user() operation in     the driver for MIDI interfaces. On x86, this just     returns an error, but it could have caused memory     corruption on other architectures. Other malformed     requests could have resulted in the use of uninitialized     variables. (CVE-2011-1476)

  - Due to a failure to validate user-supplied indexes in     the driver for Yamaha YM3812 and OPL-3 chips, a     specially crafted ioctl request could have been sent to     /dev/sequencer, resulting in reading and writing beyond     the bounds of heap buffers, and potentially allowing     privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

  - A information leak in the XFS geometry calls could be     used by local attackers to gain access to kernel     information. (CVE-2011-0191)

  - A page allocator issue in NFS v4 ACL handling that could     lead to a denial of service (crash) was fixed.
    (CVE-2011-1090)

  - net/ipv4/inet_diag.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly audit INET_DIAG bytecode, which allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite     loop) via crafted INET_DIAG_REQ_BYTECODE instructions in     a netlink message that contains multiple attribute     elements, as demonstrated by INET_DIAG_BC_JMP     instructions. (CVE-2010-3880)

  - Fixed a buffer size issue in 'usb iowarrior' module,     where a malicious device could overflow a kernel buffer.
    (CVE-2010-4656)

  - The dvb_ca_ioctl function in     drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_ca.c in the Linux kernel     did not check the sign of a certain integer field, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact     via a negative value. (CVE-2011-0521)

  - In the IrDA module, length fields provided by a peer for     names and attributes may be longer than the destination     array sizes and were not checked, this allowed local     attackers (close to the irda port) to potentially     corrupt memory. (CVE-2011-1180)

  - A system out of memory condition (denial of service)     could be triggered with a large socket backlog,     exploitable by local users. This has been addressed by     backlog limiting. (CVE-2010-4251)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate data related to the AA resolve     registers, which allowed local users to write to     arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM     (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT)     via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - Boundschecking was missing in AARESOLVE_OFFSET, which     allowed local attackers to overwrite kernel memory and     so escalate privileges or crash the kernel.
    (CVE-2011-1573)

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2011-0927.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
89105	VMware ESX / ESXi Service Console and Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2012-0001) (remote check)	Nessus	Misc.	high
79507	OracleVM 2.2 : kernel (OVMSA-2013-0039)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	high
68416	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2015)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68304	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0927)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68273	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0498)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
61083	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
61035	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
59156	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7515)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
57749	VMSA-2012-0001 : VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third-party library and ESX Service Console	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	high
57212	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7516)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
56768	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56640	USN-1241-1 : linux-fsl-imx51 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56583	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1236-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
55609	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2011:0927)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
55597	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0927)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
55589	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1159-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
55521	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1162-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
55468	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7568)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
55104	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1141-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
53867	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0498)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
53571	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 4376)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
53570	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 4384 / 4386)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
801507	CentOS RHSA-2011-0927 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high

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