This security update of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 GA kernel updates the kernel to 2.6.27.54 and fixes various security issues and other bugs.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/af_rose.c     in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a rose_getname     function call, related to the rose_bind and rose_connect     functions. (CVE-2010-3310)

  - A kernel information leak via the WEXT ioctl was fixed.
    (CVE-2010-2955)

  - A double free in an alsa error path was fixed, which     could lead to kernel crashes. (CVE-2010-3080)

  - Fixed a kernel information leak in the xfs filesystem.
    (CVE-2010-3078)

  - Fixed a kernel information leak in the cxgb3 driver.
    (CVE-2010-3296)

  - Fixed a kernel information leak in the net/eql driver.
    (CVE-2010-3297)

  - The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the     Linux kernel did not properly handle failure of the     irda_open_tsap function, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and     panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via     multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka     PF_IRDA) socket. (CVE-2010-2954)

  - The 'os2' xattr namespace on the jfs filesystem could be     used to bypass xattr namespace rules. (CVE-2010-2946)

  - Fixed a kernel information leak in the net scheduler     code. (CVE-2010-2942)

  - Integer overflow in the ext4_ext_get_blocks function in     fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system     crash) via a write operation on the last block of a     large file, followed by a sync operation.
    (CVE-2010-3015)

  - The drm_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c in     the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the     Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain potentially     sensitive information from kernel memory by requesting a     large memory-allocation amount. (CVE-2010-2803)

  - The gfs2_dirent_find_space function in fs/gfs2/dir.c in     the Linux kernel used an incorrect size value in     calculations associated with sentinel directory entries,     which allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have     unspecified other impact by renaming a file in a GFS2     filesystem, related to the gfs2_rename function in     fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c. (CVE-2010-2798)

This openSUSE 11.2 kernel was updated to 2.6.31.14, fixing several security issues and bugs.

A lot of ext4 filesystem stability fixes were also added.

Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2010-3301: Mismatch between 32bit and 64bit register usage in the system call entry path could be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. This problem only affects x86_64 kernels.

CVE-2010-3081: Incorrect buffer handling in the biarch-compat buffer handling could be used by local attackers to gain root privileges.
This problem affects foremost x86_64, or potentially other biarch platforms, like PowerPC and S390x.

CVE-2010-3084: A buffer overflow in the ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL code could be used to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.

CVE-2010-2955: A kernel information leak via the WEXT ioctl was fixed.

CVE-2010-2960: The keyctl_session_to_parent function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel expects that a certain parent session keyring exists, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl function.

CVE-2010-3080: A double free in an alsa error path was fixed, which could lead to kernel crashes.

CVE-2010-3079: Fixed a ftrace NULL pointer dereference problem which could lead to kernel crashes.

CVE-2010-3298: Fixed a kernel information leak in the net/usb/hso driver.

CVE-2010-3296: Fixed a kernel information leak in the cxgb3 driver.

CVE-2010-3297: Fixed a kernel information leak in the net/eql driver.

CVE-2010-3078: Fixed a kernel information leak in the xfs filesystem.
CVE-2010-2942: Fixed a kernel information leak in the net scheduler code.

CVE-2010-2954: The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel did not properly handle failure of the irda_open_tsap function, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka PF_IRDA) socket.

CVE-2010-2226: The xfs_swapext function in fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c in the Linux kernel did not properly check the file descriptors passed to the SWAPEXT ioctl, which allowed local users to leverage write access and obtain read access by swapping one file into another file.

CVE-2010-2946: The 'os2' xattr namespace on the jfs filesystem could be used to bypass xattr namespace rules.

CVE-2010-2959: Integer overflow in net/can/bcm.c in the Controller Area Network (CAN) implementation in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted CAN traffic.

CVE-2010-3015: Integer overflow in the ext4_ext_get_blocks function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via a write operation on the last block of a large file, followed by a sync operation.

CVE-2010-2492: Buffer overflow in the ecryptfs_uid_hash macro in fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel might have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2010-2248: fs/cifs/cifssmb.c in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an SMB response packet with an invalid CountHigh value, as demonstrated by a response from an OS/2 server, related to the CIFSSMBWrite and CIFSSMBWrite2 functions.

CVE-2010-2803: The drm_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by requesting a large memory-allocation amount.

CVE-2010-2478: A potential buffer overflow in the ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool code was fixed which could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.

CVE-2010-2524: The DNS resolution functionality in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel, when CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL is enabled, relies on a user's keyring for the dns_resolver upcall in the cifs.upcall userspace helper, which allowed local users to spoof the results of DNS queries and perform arbitrary CIFS mounts via vectors involving an add_key call, related to a 'cache stuffing' issue and MS-DFS referrals.

CVE-2010-2798: The gfs2_dirent_find_space function in fs/gfs2/dir.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect size value in calculations associated with sentinel directory entries, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact by renaming a file in a GFS2 filesystem, related to the gfs2_rename function in fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c.

CVE-2010-2537: The BTRFS_IOC_CLONE and BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE ioctls allowed a local user to overwrite append-only files.

CVE-2010-2538: The BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE ioctl was subject to an integer overflow in specifying offsets to copy from a file, which potentially allowed a local user to read sensitive filesystem data.

CVE-2010-2521: Multiple buffer overflows in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c in the XDR implementation in the NFS server in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NFSv4 compound WRITE request, related to the read_buf and nfsd4_decode_compound functions.

CVE-2010-2066: The mext_check_arguments function in fs/ext4/move_extent.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to overwrite an append-only file via a MOVE_EXT ioctl call that specifies this file as a donor.

CVE-2010-2495: The pppol2tp_xmit function in drivers/net/pppol2tp.c in the L2TP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain values associated with an interface, which allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a routing change.

CVE-2010-2071: The btrfs_xattr_set_acl function in fs/btrfs/acl.c in btrfs in the Linux kernel did not check file ownership before setting an ACL, which allowed local users to bypass file permissions by setting arbitrary ACLs, as demonstrated using setfacl.

CVE-2010-1641: The do_gfs2_set_flags function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel did not verify the ownership of a file, which allowed local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a SETFLAGS ioctl request.

CVE-2010-1087: The nfs_wait_on_request function in fs/nfs/pagelist.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (Oops) via unknown vectors related to truncating a file and an operation that is not interruptible.

CVE-2010-1636: The btrfs_ioctl_clone function in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c in the btrfs functionality in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a cloned file descriptor has been opened for reading, which allowed local users to read sensitive information from a write-only file descriptor.

CVE-2010-1437: Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl session commands that trigger access to a dead keyring that is undergoing deletion by the key_cleanup function.

CVE-2010-1148: The cifs_create function in fs/cifs/dir.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL nameidata (aka nd) field in a POSIX file-creation request to a server that supports UNIX extensions.

CVE-2010-1162: The release_one_tty function in drivers/char/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel omitted certain required calls to the put_pid function, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.

CVE-2010-1146: The Linux kernel, when a ReiserFS filesystem exists, did not restrict read or write access to the .reiserfs_priv directory, which allowed local users to gain privileges by modifying (1) extended attributes or (2) ACLs, as demonstrated by deleting a file under .reiserfs_priv/xattrs/.

CVE-2009-4537: drivers/net/r8169.c in the r8169 driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check the size of an Ethernet frame that exceeds the MTU, which allowed remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (temporary network outage) via a packet with a crafted size, in conjunction with certain packets containing A characters and certain packets containing E characters; or (2) cause a denial of service (system crash) via a packet with a crafted size, in conjunction with certain packets containing '\0' characters, related to the value of the status register and erroneous behavior associated with the RxMaxSize register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2009-1389.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch updates the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel to fix various security issues and some bugs.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - The hci_uart_tty_open function in the HCI UART driver     (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c) in the Linux kernel did     not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) via vectors related to the     Bluetooth driver. (CVE-2010-4242)

  - The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c     in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel     incorrectly expected that a certain name field ends with     a '\0' character, which allowed local users to conduct     buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a     SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call. (CVE-2010-4527)

  - Integer underflow in the irda_getsockopt function in     net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel on platforms     other than x86 allowed local users to obtain potentially     sensitive information from kernel heap memory via an     IRLMP_ENUMDEVICES getsockopt call. (CVE-2010-4529)

  - The aun_incoming function in net/econet/af_econet.c in     the Linux kernel, when Econet is enabled, allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) by sending an Acorn Universal     Networking (AUN) packet over UDP. (CVE-2010-4342)

  - fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle a certain legacy format for storage of extended     attributes, which might have allowed local users by     bypass intended xattr namespace restrictions via an     'os2.' substring at the beginning of a name.
    (CVE-2010-2946)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in the econet_sendmsg     function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel,     when an econet address is configured, allowed local     users to gain privileges by providing a large number of     iovec structures. (CVE-2010-3848)

  - The econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in     the Linux kernel, when an econet address is configured,     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and OOPS) via a sendmsg call that     specifies a NULL value for the remote address field.
    (CVE-2010-3849)

  - The ec_dev_ioctl function in net/econet/af_econet.c in     the Linux kernel does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability, which allowed local users to bypass intended     access restrictions and configure econet addresses via     an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl call. (CVE-2010-3850)

  - The do_exit function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux     kernel did not properly handle a KERNEL_DS get_fs value,     which allowed local users to bypass intended access_ok     restrictions, overwrite arbitrary kernel memory     locations, and gain privileges by leveraging a (1) BUG,     (2) NULL pointer dereference, or (3) page fault, as     demonstrated by vectors involving the clear_child_tid     feature and the splice system call. (CVE-2010-4258)

  - Multiple integer overflows in the (1) pppol2tp_sendmsg     function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c, and the (2)     l2tp_ip_sendmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c, in the     PPPoL2TP and IPoL2TP implementations in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (heap     memory corruption and panic) or possibly gain privileges     via a crafted sendto call. (CVE-2010-4160)

  - Integer overflow in the ioc_general function in     drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel on 64-bit     platforms allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a large argument in an ioctl call.
    (CVE-2010-4157)

  - Multiple integer underflows in the x25_parse_facilities     function in net/x25/x25_facilities.c in the Linux kernel     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (system crash) via malformed X.25 (1) X25_FAC_CLASS_A,     (2) X25_FAC_CLASS_B, (3) X25_FAC_CLASS_C, or (4)     X25_FAC_CLASS_D facility data, a different vulnerability     than CVE-2010-3873. (CVE-2010-4164)

  - The sk_run_filter function in net/core/filter.c in the     Linux kernel did not check whether a certain memory     location has been initialized before executing a (1)     BPF_S_LD_MEM or (2) BPF_S_LDX_MEM instruction, which     allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory via a crafted     socket filter. (CVE-2010-4158)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  - Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/af_rose.c     in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a rose_getname     function call, related to the rose_bind and rose_connect     functions. (CVE-2010-3310)

This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel contains various security fixes and lots of other bugfixes.

Notable larger bugfixes and changes :

  - 603464: Fix system freezewhen doing a network crashdump     with a netxen_nic driver

  - 610828: Avoid kernel failure on connects/disconnects to     a novell server with Novell Client 2.0

  - 612009: Fix Oracle issues due to problems with OCFS

  - 614332: Fix SMB processes stuck in uninteruptible sleep     when using (LVS/ClusteredIP) + CTDB + OCFS2

  - 619525: Fix igb driver regression

  - 626321: Add patch for Apparent OCFS2 corruption after     removing a bunch of reflinks

  - 627518: Avoid System hangs up after failed to copy files     from smb server

  - 629552: Skip Tape rewind during boot or a scsi scan The     following security issues were fixed :

  - insufficient range checks on the ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL     command allowed local users to at least crash the     kernel. (CVE-2010-2478)

  - Specially crafted NFS write requests could crash the     kernel. (CVE-2010-2521)

  - a malicious local user could fill the cache used by CIFS     do perform dns lookups with chosen data, therefore     tricking the kernel into mounting a wrong CIFS server.
    (CVE-2010-2524)

  - a local user could overwrite append-only files on a     btrfs file system. (CVE-2010-2537)

  - a local user could read kernel memory of a btrfs file     system. (CVE-2010-2538)

  - local users could trigger a NULL derefence via gfs2 file     system. (CVE-2010-2798)

  - driver specific drm ioctl could leak kernel memory to     users with access to dri devices. (CVE-2010-2803)

  - 'tc dump' could leak some kernel memory. (CVE-2010-2942)

  - the 'os2' xaddr namespace could be used to bypass xattr     namespace rules. (CVE-2010-2946)

  - integer overflows in the CAN subsystem allowed attackers     to crash the kernel or gain privileges. (CVE-2010-2959)

  - certain write operations on an ext4 filesystem could     crash the kernel. (CVE-2010-3015)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3296, CVE-2010-3297, CVE-2010-3298)

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

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

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

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

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

Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3858)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3859)

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

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CAN protocol on 64bit systems did not correctly calculate the size of certain buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2010-3874)

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

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4073)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RME Hammerfall DSP audio interface driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4080, CVE-2010-4081)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the VIA video driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4082)

James Bottomley discovered that the ICP vortex storage array controller driver did not validate certain sizes. A local attacker on a 64bit system could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4157)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could create malicious filters to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4158)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel L2TP implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to to crash the kernel, or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-4160)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain iovec operations did not calculate page counts correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4162)

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

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

Dave Jones discovered that the mprotect system call did not correctly handle merged VMAs. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4169)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS protocol did not correctly check ioctl arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4175)

Alan Cox discovered that the HCI UART driver did not correctly check if a write operation was available. If the mmap_min-addr sysctl was changed from the Ubuntu default to a value of 0, a local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4242)

Brad Spengler discovered that the kernel did not correctly account for userspace memory allocations during exec() calls. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all system memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4243)

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

It was discovered that named pipes did not correctly handle certain fcntl calls. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4256)

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

Kees Cook discovered that some ethtool functions did not correctly clear heap memory. A local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges could exploit this to read portions of kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4655)

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

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

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 snd_ctl_new function     in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel before     2.6.36-rc5-next-20100929 allow local users to cause a     denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1)     SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD or (2)     SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctl call. (CVE-2010-3442)

  - Integer signedness error in the pkt_find_dev_from_minor     function in drivers/block/pktcdvd.c in the Linux kernel     before 2.6.36-rc6 allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or cause a denial of     service (invalid pointer dereference and system crash)     via a crafted index value in a PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS ioctl     call. (CVE-2010-3437)

  - Uninitialized stack memory disclosure in the     FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl in the sis and ivtv drivers could     leak kernel memory to userspace. (CVE-2010-4078)

  - Uninitialized stack memory disclosure in the rme9652     ALSA driver could leak kernel memory to userspace.
    (CVE-2010-4080 / CVE-2010-4081)

  - Uninitialized stack memory disclosure in the SystemV IPC     handling functions could leak kernel memory to     userspace. (CVE-2010-4073 / CVE-2010-4072 /     CVE-2010-4083)

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

  - Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/af_rose.c     in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a rose_getname     function call, related to the rose_bind and rose_connect     functions. (CVE-2010-3310)

  - The xfs_swapext function in fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c in the     Linux kernel did not properly check the file descriptors     passed to the SWAPEXT ioctl, which allowed local users     to leverage write access and obtain read access by     swapping one file into another file. (CVE-2010-2226)

  - fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle a certain legacy format for storage of extended     attributes, which might have allowed local users by     bypass intended xattr namespace restrictions via an     'os2.' substring at the beginning of a name.
    (CVE-2010-2946)

  - The actions implementation in the network queueing     functionality in the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize certain structure members when performing     dump operations, which allowed local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via     vectors related to (1) the tcf_gact_dump function in     net/sched/act_gact.c, (2) the tcf_mirred_dump function     in net/sched/act_mirred.c, (3) the tcf_nat_dump function     in net/sched/act_nat.c, (4) the tcf_simp_dump function     in net/sched/act_simple.c, and (5) the tcf_skbedit_dump     function in net/sched/act_skbedit.c. (CVE-2010-2942)

  - fs/cifs/cifssmb.c in the CIFS implementation in the     Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (panic) via an SMB response packet with an     invalid CountHigh value, as demonstrated by a response     from an OS/2 server, related to the CIFSSMBWrite and     CIFSSMBWrite2 functions. (CVE-2010-2248)

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

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

  - A missing lock prefix in the x86 futex code could be     used by local attackers to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2010-3086)

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

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

This security update of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 GA kernel updates the kernel to 2.6.27.54 and fixes various security issues and other bugs.

Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2010-3310: Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/af_rose.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a rose_getname function call, related to the rose_bind and rose_connect functions.

CVE-2010-2955: A kernel information leak via the WEXT ioctl was fixed.

CVE-2010-3080: A double free in an alsa error path was fixed, which could lead to kernel crashes.

CVE-2010-3078: Fixed a kernel information leak in the xfs filesystem.

CVE-2010-3296: Fixed a kernel information leak in the cxgb3 driver.

CVE-2010-3297: Fixed a kernel information leak in the net/eql driver.

CVE-2010-2954: The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel did not properly handle failure of the irda_open_tsap function, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka PF_IRDA) socket.

CVE-2010-2946: The 'os2' xattr namespace on the jfs filesystem could be used to bypass xattr namespace rules.

CVE-2010-2942: Fixed a kernel information leak in the net scheduler code.

CVE-2010-3015: Integer overflow in the ext4_ext_get_blocks function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via a write operation on the last block of a large file, followed by a sync operation.

CVE-2010-2803: The drm_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by requesting a large memory-allocation amount.

CVE-2010-2798: The gfs2_dirent_find_space function in fs/gfs2/dir.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect size value in calculations associated with sentinel directory entries, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact by renaming a file in a GFS2 filesystem, related to the gfs2_rename function in fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
50925	SuSE 11 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3358 / 3361 / 3362)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/2/2010	1/14/2021	high
49671	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0664-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/24/2010	1/14/2021	critical
50044	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-ec2, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-1000-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/20/2010	5/14/2023	critical
51953	SuSE9 Security Update : the Linux kernel (YOU Patch Number 12672)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/11/2011	1/14/2021	high
51610	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3068 / 3069 / 3070)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/21/2011	1/14/2021	critical
65101	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1083-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/9/2013	5/14/2023	critical
58229	SuSE9 Security Update : the Linux kernel (YOU Patch Number 12677)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/23/2012	1/14/2021	high
59153	SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7261)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/17/2012	1/14/2021	high
51158	SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7257)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/14/2010	1/14/2021	high
53669	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0895-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/5/2011	1/14/2021	high

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