This advisory covers the S/390 components of the recent security update for the Linux 2.6.8 kernel that were missing due to technical problems. For reference, please see the text of the original advisory.

  Several security related problems have been discovered in the Linux   kernel which may lead to a denial of service or even the execution   of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project   identifies the following problems :

    - CVE-2004-2660       Toshihiro Iwamoto discovered a memory leak in the       handling of direct I/O writes that allows local users       to cause a denial of service.

    - CVE-2005-4798       A buffer overflow in NFS readlink handling allows a       malicious remote server to cause a denial of service.

    - CVE-2006-1052       Stephen Smalley discovered a bug in the SELinux ptrace       handling that allows local users with ptrace       permissions to change the tracer SID to the SID of       another process.

    - CVE-2006-1343       Pavel Kankovsky discovered an information leak in the       getsockopt system call which can be exploited by a       local program to leak potentially sensitive memory to       userspace.

    - CVE-2006-1528       Douglas Gilbert reported a bug in the sg driver that       allows local users to cause a denial of service by       performing direct I/O transfers from the sg driver to       memory mapped I/O space.

    - CVE-2006-1855       Mattia Belletti noticed that certain debugging code       left in the process management code could be exploited       by a local attacker to cause a denial of service.

    - CVE-2006-1856       Kostik Belousov discovered a missing LSM       file_permission check in the readv and writev       functions which might allow attackers to bypass       intended access restrictions.

    - CVE-2006-2444       Patrick McHardy discovered a bug in the SNMP NAT       helper that allows remote attackers to cause a denial       of service.

    - CVE-2006-2446       A race condition in the socket buffer handling allows       remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

    - CVE-2006-2935       Diego Calleja Garcia discovered a buffer overflow in       the DVD handling code that could be exploited by a       specially crafted DVD USB storage device to execute       arbitrary code.

    - CVE-2006-2936       A bug in the serial USB driver has been discovered       that could be exploited by a custom made USB serial       adapter to consume arbitrary amounts of memory.

    - CVE-2006-3468       James McKenzie discovered a denial of service       vulnerability in the NFS driver. When exporting an       ext3 file system over NFS, a remote attacker could       exploit this to trigger a file system panic by sending       a specially crafted UDP packet.

    - CVE-2006-3745       Wei Wang discovered a bug in the SCTP implementation       that allows local users to cause a denial of service       and possibly gain root privileges.

    - CVE-2006-4093       Olof Johansson discovered that the kernel does not       disable the HID0 bit on PowerPC 970 processors which       could be exploited by a local attacker to cause a       denial of service.

    - CVE-2006-4145       A bug in the Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem       driver could be exploited by a local user to cause a       denial of service.

    - CVE-2006-4535       David Miller reported a problem with the fix for       CVE-2006-3745 that allows local users to crash the       system via an SCTP socket with a certain SO_LINGER       value.

The following matrix explains which kernel version for which architecture fixes the problem mentioned above :

                              stable (sarge)                 Source                       2.6.8-16sarge5                 Alpha architecture           2.6.8-16sarge5                 AMD64 architecture           2.6.8-16sarge5                 HP Precision architecture    2.6.8-6sarge5                  Intel IA-32 architecture     2.6.8-16sarge5                 Intel IA-64 architecture     2.6.8-14sarge5                 Motorola 680x0 architecture  2.6.8-4sarge5                  PowerPC architecture         2.6.8-12sarge5                 IBM S/390                    2.6.8-5sarge5                  Sun Sparc architecture       2.6.8-15sarge5                 FAI                          1.9.1sarge4

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel :

The kernel did not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names for the getsockopt function, which could allow a local user to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory if getsockopt() is called with SO_ORIGINAL_DST (CVE-2006-1343).

Prior to 2.6.16, a buffer overflow in the USB Gadget RNDIS implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a remote NDIS response (CVE-2006-1368).

Prior to 2.6.13, local users could cause a Denial of Service (crash) via a dio transfer from the sg driver to memory mapped IO space (CVE-2006-1528).

Prior to and including 2.6.16, the kernel did not add the appropriate LSM file_permission hooks to the readv and writev functions, which could allow an attacker to bypass intended access restrictions (CVE-2006-1856).

Prior to 2.6.16.17, a buffer oveflow in SCTP could allow a remote attacker to cause a DoS (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed HB-ACK chunk (CVE-2006-1857).

Prior to 2.6.16.17, SCTP could allow a remote attacker to cause a DoS (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunk length that is inconsistent with the actual length of provided parameters (CVE-2006-1858).

Prior to 2.6.16.16, a memory leak in fs/locks.c could allow an attacker to cause a DoS (memory consumption) via unspecified actions (CVE-2006-1859).

Prior to 2.6.16.16, lease_init in fs/locks.c could allow an attacker to cause a DoS (fcntl_setlease lockup) via certain actions (CVE-2006-1860).

Prior to 2.6.17, SCTP allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (infinite recursion and crash) via a packet that contains two or more DATA fragments (CVE-2006-2274).

Prior to 2.6.16.21, a race condition in run_posix_cpu timers could allow a local user to cause a DoS (BUG_ON crash) by causing one CPU to attach a timer to a process that is exiting (CVE-2006-2445).

Prior to 2.6.17.1, xt_sctp in netfilter could allow an attacker to cause a DoS (infinite loop) via an SCTP chunk with a 0 length (CVE-2006-3085).

As well, an issue where IPC could hit an unmapped vmalloc page when near the page boundary has been corrected.

In addition to these security fixes, other fixes have been included such as :

  - avoid automatic update of kernel-source without updating     the kernel

    - fix USB EHCI handoff code, which made some machines       hang while booting

  - disable USB_BANDWIDTH which corrects a known problem in     some USB sound devices

  - fix a bluetooth refcounting bug which could hang the     machine

    - fix a NULL pointer dereference in USB-Serial's       serial_open() function

  - add missing wakeup in pl2303 TIOCMIWAIT handling

    - fix a possible user-after-free in USB-Serial core

    - suspend/resume fixes

    - HPET timer fixes

    - prevent fixed button event to reach userspace on S3       resume

    - add sysfs support in ide-tape

    - fix ASUS P5S800 reboot

Finally, a new drbd-utils package is provided that is a required upgrade with this new kernel due to a logic bug in the previously shipped version of drbd-utils that could cause a kernel panic on the master when a slave went offline.

The provided packages are patched to fix these vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade to these updated kernels.

To update your kernel, please follow the directions located at :

http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/kernelupdate

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2006-0038     'Solar Designer' discovered that arithmetic computations     in netfilter's do_replace() function can lead to a     buffer overflow and the execution of arbitrary code.
    However, the operation requires CAP_NET_ADMIN     privileges, which is only an issue in virtualization     systems or fine grained access control systems.

  - CVE-2006-0039     'Solar Designer' discovered a race condition in     netfilter's do_add_counters() function, which allows     information disclosure of kernel memory by exploiting a     race condition. Like CVE-2006-0038, it requires     CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges.

  - CVE-2006-0741     Intel EM64T systems were discovered to be susceptible to     a local DoS due to an endless recursive fault related to     a bad ELF entry address.

  - CVE-2006-0742     Incorrectly declared die_if_kernel() function as 'does     never return' which could be exploited by a local     attacker resulting in a kernel crash.

  - CVE-2006-1056     AMD64 machines (and other 7th and 8th generation     AuthenticAMD processors) were found to be vulnerable to     sensitive information leakage, due to how they handle     saving and restoring the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers     in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending. This     allows a process to determine portions of the state of     floating point instructions of other processes.

  - CVE-2006-1242     Marco Ivaldi discovered that there was an unintended     information disclosure allowing remote attackers to     bypass protections against Idle Scans (nmap -sI) by     abusing the ID field of IP packets and bypassing the     zero IP ID in DF packet countermeasure. This was a     result of the ip_push_pending_frames function improperly     incremented the IP ID field when sending a RST after     receiving unsolicited TCP SYN-ACK packets.

  - CVE-2006-1343     Pavel Kankovsky reported the existence of a potential     information leak resulting from the failure to     initialize sin.sin_zero in the IPv4 socket code.

  - CVE-2006-1368     Shaun Tancheff discovered a buffer overflow (boundary     condition error) in the USB Gadget RNDIS implementation     allowing remote attackers to cause a DoS. While creating     a reply message, the driver allocated memory for the     reply data, but not for the reply structure. The kernel     fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before     copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.
    Attackers could crash the system, or possibly execute     arbitrary machine code.

  - CVE-2006-1524     Hugh Dickins discovered an issue in the madvise_remove()     function wherein file and mmap restrictions are not     followed, allowing local users to bypass IPC permissions     and replace portions of readonly tmpfs files with     zeroes.

  - CVE-2006-1525     Alexandra Kossovsky reported a NULL pointer dereference     condition in ip_route_input() that can be triggered by a     local user by requesting a route for a multicast IP     address, resulting in a denial of service (panic).

  - CVE-2006-1857     Vlad Yasevich reported a data validation issue in the     SCTP subsystem that may allow a remote user to overflow     a buffer using a badly formatted HB-ACK chunk, resulting     in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2006-1858     Vlad Yasevich reported a bug in the bounds checking code     in the SCTP subsystem that may allow a remote attacker     to trigger a denial of service attack when rounded     parameter lengths are used to calculate parameter     lengths instead of the actual values.

  - CVE-2006-1864     Mark Mosely discovered that chroots residing on an SMB     share can be escaped with specially crafted 'cd'     sequences.

  - CVE-2006-2271     The 'Mu security team' discovered that carefully crafted     ECNE chunks can cause a kernel crash by accessing     incorrect state stable entries in the SCTP networking     subsystem, which allows denial of service.

  - CVE-2006-2272     The 'Mu security team' discovered that fragmented SCTP     control chunks can trigger kernel panics, which allows     for denial of service attacks.

  - CVE-2006-2274     It was discovered that SCTP packets with two initial     bundled data packets can lead to infinite recursion,     which allows for denial of service attacks.

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the eighth regular update.

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the eighth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

New features introduced by this update include :

  - addition of the adp94xx and dcdbas device drivers -     diskdump support on megaraid_sas, qlogic, and swap     partitions - support for new hardware via driver and     SCSI white-list updates

There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

There were numerous driver updates and security fixes (elaborated below). Other key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, the NFS and autofs4 file systems, the SCSI and USB subsystems, and architecture-specific handling affecting AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors.

The following device drivers have been added or upgraded to new versions :

adp94xx -------- 1.0.8 (new) bnx2 ----------- 1.4.38 cciss ---------- 2.4.60.RH1 dcdbas --------- 5.6.0-1 (new) e1000 ---------- 7.0.33-k2 emulex --------- 7.3.6 forcedeth ------ 0.30 ipmi ----------- 35.13 qlogic --------- 7.07.04b6 tg3 ------------ 3.52RH

The following security bugs were fixed in this update :

  - a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that     allowed a local user to cause a denial of service     (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

  - a flaw in the exec() handling of multi-threaded tasks     using ptrace() that allowed a local user to cause a     denial of service (hang of a user process)     (CVE-2005-3107, low)

  - a difference in 'sysretq' operation of EM64T (as opposed     to Opteron) processors that allowed a local user to     cause a denial of service (crash) upon return from     certain system calls (CVE-2006-0741 and CVE-2006-0744,     important)

  - a flaw in unaligned accesses handling on Intel Itanium     processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial     of service (crash) (CVE-2006-0742, important)

  - an info leak on AMD-based x86 and x86_64 systems that     allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point     exception state of a process run by a different user     (CVE-2006-1056, important)

  - a flaw in IPv4 packet output handling that allowed a     remote user to bypass the zero IP ID countermeasure on     systems with a disabled firewall (CVE-2006-1242, low)

  - a minor info leak in socket option handling in the     network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

  - a flaw in IPv4 netfilter handling for the unlikely use     of SNMP NAT processing that allowed a remote user to     cause a denial of service (crash) or potential memory     corruption (CVE-2006-2444, moderate)

Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that have not been addressed.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the fourth regular update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

New features introduced in this update include :

* Device Mapper mirroring support

* IDE diskdump support

* x86, AMD64 and Intel EM64T: Multi-core scheduler support enhancements

* Itanium: perfmon support for Montecito

* much improved support for IBM x460

* AMD PowerNow! patches to support Opteron Rev G

* Vmalloc support > 64MB

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions :

ipmi: 33.11 to 33.13 ib_mthca: 0.06 to 0.08 bnx2: 1.4.30 to 1.4.38 bonding: 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 e100: 3.4.8-k2-NAPI to 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e1000:
6.1.16-k3-NAPI to 7.0.33-k2-NAPI sky2: 0.13 to 1.1 tg3: 3.43-rh to 3.52-rh ipw2100: 1.1.0 to git-1.1.4 ipw2200: 1.0.0 to git-1.0.10 3w-9xxx: 2.26.02.001 to 2.26.04.010 ips: 7.10.18 to 7.12.02 iscsi_sfnet: 4:0.1.11-2 to 4:0.1.11-3 lpfc: 0:8.0.16.18 to 0:8.0.16.27 megaraid_sas: 00.00.02.00 to 00.00.02.03-RH1 qla2xxx: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 qla6312: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 sata_promise: 1.03 to 1.04 sata_vsc: 1.1 to 1.2 ibmvscsic: 1.5.5 to 1.5.6 ipr: 2.0.11.1 to 2.0.11.2

Added drivers :

dcdbas: 5.6.0-2 sata_mv: 0.6 sata_qstor: 0.05 sata_uli: 0.5 skge: 1.1 stex: 2.9.0.13 pdc_adma: 0.03

This update includes fixes for the security issues :

* a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

* a flaw in the ACL handling of nfsd that allowed a remote user to bypass ACLs for readonly mounted NFS file systems (CVE-2005-3623, moderate)

* a flaw in the netfilter handling that allowed a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights to cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2006-0038, low)

* a flaw in the IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries strnlen_user() function that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to retrieve random kernel data (CVE-2006-0456, important)

* a flaw in the keyctl functions that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to read sensitive kernel memory (CVE-2006-0457, important)

* a flaw in unaligned accesses handling on Itanium processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-0742, important)

* a flaw in SELinux ptrace logic that allowed a local user with ptrace permissions to change the tracer SID to a SID of another process (CVE-2006-1052, moderate)

* an info leak on AMD-based x86 and x86_64 systems that allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point exception state of a process run by a different user (CVE-2006-1056, important)

* a flaw in IPv4 packet output handling that allowed a remote user to bypass the zero IP ID countermeasure on systems with a disabled firewall (CVE-2006-1242, low)

* a minor info leak in socket option handling in the network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

* a flaw in the HB-ACK chunk handling of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-1857, moderate)

* a flaw in the SCTP implementation that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (deadlock) (CVE-2006-2275, moderate)

* a flaw in the socket buffer handling that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2446, important)

* a flaw in the signal handling access checking on PowerPC that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (CVE-2006-2448, important)

* a flaw in the netfilter SCTP module when receiving a chunkless packet that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-2934, important)

There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The sys_mbind() function did not properly verify the validity of the 'maxnod' argument. A local user could exploit this to trigger a buffer overflow, which caused a kernel crash. (CVE-2006-0557)

The SELinux module did not correctly handle the tracer SID when a process was already being traced. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2006-1052)

Al Viro discovered a local Denial of Service in the sysfs write buffer handling. By writing a block with a length exactly equal to the processor's page size to any writable file in /sys, a local attacker could cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2006-1055)

John Blackwood discovered a race condition with single-step debugging multiple processes at the same time. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system. This only affects the amd64 platform.
(CVE-2006-1066)

Marco Ivaldi discovered a flaw in the handling of the ID number of IP packets. This number was incremented after receiving unsolicited TCP SYN-ACK packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to conduct port scans with the 'Idle scan' method (nmap -sI), which bypassed intended port scan protections. (CVE-2006-1242)

Pavel Kankovsky discovered that the getsockopt() function, when called with an SO_ORIGINAL_DST argument, does not properly clear the returned structure, so that a random piece of kernel memory is exposed to the user. This could potentially reveal sensitive data like passwords or encryption keys. (CVE-2006-1343)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the USB Gadget RNDIS implementation. While creating a reply message, the driver did not allocate enough memory for the reply structure. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2006-1368)

Alexandra Kossovsky discovered an invalid memory access in the ip_route_input() function. By using the 'ip' command in a particular way to retrieve multicast routes, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-1525).

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 a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (32 bit architectures)

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues described below :

* a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

* a flaw in ROSE due to missing verification of the ndigis argument of new routes (CVE-2005-3273, moderate)

* an info leak on AMD-based x86 systems that allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point exception state of a process run by a different user (CVE-2006-1056, important)

* a minor info leak in socket name handling in the network code (CVE-2006-1342, low)

* a minor info leak in socket option handling in the network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

* a directory traversal vulnerability in smbfs that allowed a local user to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted filesystem via '..\\' sequences (CVE-2006-1864, moderate)

* a flaw in the mprotect system call that allowed to give write permission to a readonly attachment of shared memory (CVE-2006-2071, moderate)

A performance bug in the NFS implementation that caused clients to frequently pause when sending TCP segments during heavy write loads was also addressed.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes to correct these issues.

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2006-0575.

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2006-0437.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
22726	Debian DSA-1184-2 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	10/14/2006	1/4/2021	high
22058	Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:123)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	7/18/2006	1/6/2021	critical
22639	Debian DSA-1097-1 : kernel-source-2.4.27 - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	10/14/2006	1/4/2021	critical
22135	CentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2006:0437)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	8/4/2006	1/4/2021	high
22221	RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0575)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	8/14/2006	1/14/2021	high
22276	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0575)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	8/30/2006	1/4/2021	high
21375	Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-281-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	5/13/2006	1/19/2021	critical
22086	RHEL 3 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0437)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/21/2006	1/14/2021	high
22054	RHEL 2.1 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0579)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/17/2006	1/14/2021	medium
801420	CentOS RHSA-2006-0575 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic			high
801417	CentOS RHSA-2006-0437 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic			high

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