Executive Summary

Summary
Title New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several issues
Informations
Name DSA-2012 First vendor Publication 2010-03-11
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2010-03-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

CVE-2009-3725

Philipp Reisner reported an issue in the connector subsystem which allows unprivileged users to send netlink packets. This allows local users to manipulate settings for uvesafb devices which are normally reserved for privileged users.

CVE-2010-0622

Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state which results in a denial of service (oops).

This update also includes fixes for regressions introduced by previous updates. See the referenced Debian bug pages for details.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-21lenny4.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages.

The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update:

Debian 5.0 (lenny) user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+21lenny4

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2012

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13127
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13127
Title: DSA-2012-1 linux-2.6 -- privilege escalation/denial of service
Description: CVE-2009-3725 Philipp Reisner reported an issue in the connector subsystem which allows unprivileged users to send netlink packets. This allows local users to manipulate settings for uvesafb devices which are normally reserved for privileged users. CVE-2010-0622 Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state which results in a denial of service. This update also includes fixes for regressions introduced by previous updates. See the referenced Debian bug pages for details. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-21lenny4. We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages. The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update: Debian 5.0 user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+21lenny4
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2012-1
CVE-2009-3725
CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): linux-2.6
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18387
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18387
Title: DSA-2015-1 drbd8 linux-modules-extra-2.6 - privilege escalation
Description: A local vulnerability has been discovered in drbd8.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2015-1
CVE-2009-3725
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): drbd8
linux-modules-extra-2.6
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20241
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20241
Title: DSA-2003-1 linux-2.6 - several vulnerabilities
Description: NOTE: This kernel update marks the final planned kernel security update for the 2.6.18 kernel in the Debian release 'etch'. Although security support for 'etch' officially ended on Feburary 15th, 2010, this update was already in preparation before that date. A final update that includes fixes for these issues in the 2.6.24 kernel is also in preparation and will be released shortly.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2003-1
CVE-2009-3080
CVE-2009-3726
CVE-2009-4005
CVE-2009-4020
CVE-2009-4021
CVE-2009-4536
CVE-2010-0007
CVE-2010-0410
CVE-2010-0415
CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): linux-2.6
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20551
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20551
Title: Third party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESX
Description: The wake_futex_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not properly handle certain unlock operations for a Priority Inheritance (PI) futex, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) and possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving modification of the futex value from user space.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2010-0622
Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
VMWare ESX Server 4.0
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6841
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6841
Title: DSA-2003 linux-2.6 -- privilege escalation/denial of service
Description: NOTE: This kernel update marks the final planned kernel security update for the 2.6.18 kernel in the Debian release "etch". Although security support for "etch" officially ended on Feburary 15th, 2010, this update was already in preparation before that date. A final update that includes fixes for these issues in the 2.6.24 kernel is also in preparation and will be released shortly. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Dave Jones reported an issue in the gdth SCSI driver. A missing check for negative offsets in an ioctl call could be exploited by local users to create a denial of service or potentially gain elevated privileges. Trond Myklebust reported an issue where a malicious NFS server could cause a denial of service condition on its clients by returning incorrect attributes during an open call. Roel Kluin discovered an issue in the hfc_usb driver, an ISDN driver for Colognechip HFC-S USB chip. A potential read overflow exists which may allow remote users to cause a denial of service condition. Amerigo Wang discovered an issue in the HFS filesystem that would allow a denial of service by a local user who has sufficient privileges to mount a specially crafted filesystem. Anana V. Avati discovered an issue in the fuse subsystem. If the system is sufficiently low on memory, a local user can cause the kernel to dereference an invalid pointer resulting in a denial of service and potentially an escalation of privileges. Fabian Yamaguchi reported an issue in the e1000 driver for Intel gigabit network adapters which allow remote users to bypass packet filters using specially crafted ethernet frames. Florian Westphal reported a lack of capability checking in the ebtables netfilter subsystem. If the ebtables module is loaded, local users can add and modify ebtables rules. Sebastian Krahmer discovered an issue in the netlink connector subsystem that permits local users to allocate large amounts of system memory resulting in a denial of service. Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered an issue in the sys_move_pages interface, limited to amd64, ia64 and powerpc64 flavors in Debian. Local users can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service or gain access to sensitive kernel memory. Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state which results in a denial of service. This update also fixes a regression introduced by a previous security update that caused problems booting on certain s390 systems.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2003
CVE-2009-3080
CVE-2009-3726
CVE-2009-4005
CVE-2009-4020
CVE-2009-4021
CVE-2009-4536
CVE-2010-0007
CVE-2010-0410
CVE-2010-0415
CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): linux-2.6
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7293
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7293
Title: DSA-2015 drbd8 -- privilege escalation
Description: A local vulnerability has been discovered in drbd8. Philipp Reisner fixed an issue in the drbd kernel module that allows local users to send netlink packets to perform actions that should be restricted to users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges. This is a similar issue to those described by CVE-2009-3725. This update also fixes an ABI compatibility issue which was introduced by linux-2.6. The prebuilt drbd module packages listed in this advisory require a linux-image package version 2.6.26-21lenny3 or greater.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2015
CVE-2009-3725
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): drbd8
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7309
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7309
Title: DSA-2012 linux-2.6 -- privilege escalation/denial of service
Description: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Philipp Reisner reported an issue in the connector subsystem which allows unprivileged users to send netlink packets. This allows local users to manipulate settings for uvesafb devices which are normally reserved for privileged users. Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state which results in a denial of service. This update also includes fixes for regressions introduced by previous updates. See the referenced Debian bug pages for details.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2012
CVE-2009-3725
CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): linux-2.6
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7532
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7532
Title: DSA-2005 linux-2.6.24 -- privilege escalation/denial of service/sensitive memory leak
Description: NOTE: This kernel update marks the final planned kernel security update for the 2.6.24 kernel in the Debian release "etch". Although security support for "etch" officially ended on Feburary 15th, 2010, this update was already in preparation before that date. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, sensitive memory leak or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Steve Beattie and Kees Cook reported an information leak in the maps and smaps files available under /proc. Local users may be able to read this data for setuid processes while the ELF binary is being loaded. Eric Paris provided several fixes to increase the protection provided by the mmap_min_addr tunable against NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities. Dave Jones reported an issue in the gdth SCSI driver. A missing check for negative offsets in an ioctl call could be exploited by local users to create a denial of service or potentially gain elevated privileges. Trond Myklebust reported an issue where a malicious NFS server could cause a denial of service condition on its clients by returning incorrect attributes during an open call. Joe Malicki discovered an issue in the megaraid_sas driver. Insufficient permissions on the sysfs dbg_lvl interface allow local users to modify the debug logging behavior. Roel Kluin discovered an issue in the hfc_usb driver, an ISDN driver for Colognechip HFC-S USB chip. A potential read overflow exists which may allow remote users to cause a denial of service condition. Amerigo Wang discovered an issue in the HFS filesystem that would allow a denial of service by a local user who has sufficient privileges to mount a specially crafted filesystem. Anana V. Avati discovered an issue in the fuse subsystem. If the system is sufficiently low on memory, a local user can cause the kernel to dereference an invalid pointer resulting in a denial of service and potentially an escalation of privileges. Jay Fenlason discovered an issue in the firewire stack that allows local users to cause a denial of service by making a specially crafted ioctl call. Ted Ts’o discovered an issue in the ext4 filesystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service. For this to be exploitable, the local user must have sufficient privileges to mount a filesystem. Fabian Yamaguchi reported issues in the e1000 and e1000e drivers for Intel gigabit network adapters which allow remote users to bypass packet filters using specially crafted Ethernet frames. Andi Kleen reported a defect which allows local users to gain read access to memory reachable by the kernel when the print-fatal-signals option is enabled. This option is disabled by default. Florian Westphal reported a lack of capability checking in the ebtables netfilter subsystem. If the ebtables module is loaded, local users can add and modify ebtables rules. Al Viro reported several issues with the mmap/mremap system calls that allow local users to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges. Sebastian Krahmer discovered an issue in the netlink connector subsystem that permits local users to allocate large amounts of system memory resulting in a denial of service. Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered an issue in the sys_move_pages interface, limited to amd64, ia64 and powerpc64 flavors in Debian. Local users can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service or gain access to sensitive kernel memory. Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state which results in a denial of service .
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2005
CVE-2009-2691
CVE-2009-2695
CVE-2009-3080
CVE-2009-3726
CVE-2009-3889
CVE-2009-4005
CVE-2009-4020
CVE-2009-4021
CVE-2009-4138
CVE-2009-4308
CVE-2009-4536
CVE-2009-4538
CVE-2010-0003
CVE-2010-0007
CVE-2010-0291
CVE-2010-0410
CVE-2010-0415
CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): linux-2.6.24
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9655
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9655
Title: The wake_futex_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not properly handle certain unlock operations for a Priority Inheritance (PI) futex, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) and possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving modification of the futex value from user space.
Description: The wake_futex_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not properly handle certain unlock operations for a Priority Inheritance (PI) futex, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) and possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving modification of the futex value from user space.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2010-0622
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 5
Os 1270

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-03-16 Name : VMSA-2011-0003.2 Third party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCe...
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2011-0003.nasl
2012-03-15 Name : VMSA-2010-0016 VMware ESXi and ESX third party updates for Service Console an...
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2010-0016.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2010:0504 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2010_0504_kernel_centos5_i386.nasl
2010-10-19 Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2010:198 (kernel)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_198.nasl
2010-09-27 Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2010:188 (kernel)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_188.nasl
2010-07-02 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0504-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2010_0504-01_kernel.nasl
2010-05-04 Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2010:088 (kernel)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_088.nasl
2010-03-22 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2010:016
File : nvt/gb_suse_2010_016.nasl
2010-03-22 Name : Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-914-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_914_1.nasl
2010-03-16 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2012-1 (linux-2.6)
File : nvt/deb_2012_1.nasl
2010-03-12 Name : Mandriva Update for rsnapshot MDVA-2010:088 (rsnapshot)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVA_2010_088.nasl
2010-03-05 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2010:014
File : nvt/gb_suse_2010_014.nasl
2010-02-25 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2003-1 (linux-2.6)
File : nvt/deb_2003_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
62380 Linux Kernel kernel/futex.c wake_futex_pi Function Local DoS

59449 Linux Kernel Connector Netlink Packet Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when unprivileged users being able to send netlink packets to certain subsystems using connector, which can be exploited to change certain configurations and perform other operations that should not be available to unprivileged users.

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2011-05-12 IAVM : 2011-A-0066 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware Products
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0027158

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-04 Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2011-0003_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0039.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0504.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20100701_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-02-14 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2011-0003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-11-16 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2010-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-10-08 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-198.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-09-24 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-188.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-088.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-28 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2010-0504.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-13 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2010-0504.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-1804.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_kernel-100317.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-914-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_kernel-100301.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-03 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_kernel-100223.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-03 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-100223.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-07 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-864-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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