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-2005-3359     Franz Filz discovered that some socket calls permit     causing inconsistent reference counts on loadable     modules, which allows local users to cause a denial of     service.

  - 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. Likewise, it requires CAP_NET_ADMIN     privileges. 

  - CVE-2006-0456     David Howells discovered that the s390 assembly version     of the strnlen_user() function incorrectly returns some     string size values.

  - CVE-2006-0554     It was discovered that the ftruncate() function of XFS     can expose unallocated blocks, which allows information     disclosure of previously deleted files.

  - CVE-2006-0555     It was discovered that some NFS file operations on     handles mounted with O_DIRECT can force the kernel into     a crash.

  - CVE-2006-0557     It was discovered that the code to configure memory     policies allows tricking the kernel into a crash, thus     allowing denial of service.

  - CVE-2006-0558     It was discovered by Cliff Wickman that perfmon for the     IA64 architecture allows users to trigger a BUG()     assert, which allows denial of service.

  - 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     Alan and Gareth discovered that the ia64 platform had an     incorrectly declared die_if_kernel() function as 'does     never return' which could be exploited by a local     attacker resulting in a kernel crash.

  - CVE-2006-0744     The Linux kernel did not properly handle uncanonical     return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, reporting     exceptions in the SYSRET instead of the next     instruction, causing the kernel exception handler to run     on the user stack with the wrong GS. This may result in     a DoS due to a local user changing the frames.

  - 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-2006-1368     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-2006-1523     Oleg Nesterov reported an unsafe BUG_ON call in signal.c     which was introduced by RCU signal handling. The BUG_ON     code is protected by siglock while the code in     switch_exit_pids() uses tasklist_lock. It may be     possible for local users to exploit this to initiate a     denial of service attack (DoS).

  - 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-2006-1863     Mark Mosely discovered that chroots residing on an CIFS     share can be escaped with specially crafted 'cd'     sequences.

  - 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.

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.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
22645	Debian DSA-1103-1 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	10/14/2006	1/4/2021	critical
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
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

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