Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2012:083 First vendor Publication 2012-05-29
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2012-05-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in util-linux:

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089 (CVE-2011-1675).

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab~ lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors (CVE-2011-1677).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:083

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
50 % CWE-16 Configuration

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20507
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20507
Title: VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries
Description: The addmntent function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0296.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-1089
Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21413
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21413
Title: RHSA-2012:0307: util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Low)
Description: mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab~ lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2012:0307-03
CVE-2011-1675
CVE-2011-1677
Version: 29
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Product(s): util-linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23173
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23173
Title: ELSA-2012:0307: util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Low)
Description: mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab~ lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012:0307-03
CVE-2011-1675
CVE-2011-1677
Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): util-linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25868
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25868
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1251-1 -- Security update for glibc
Description: This collective update for the GNU C library (glibc) provides the following fixes and enhancements: Security issues fixed: * Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#813121, CVE-2013-1914) * Fix a different stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#828637) * Fix array overflow in floating point parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) * Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) * Add patches for fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc #770891, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406] * Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365) (CVE-2010-4756) * Flush stream in addmntent, to catch errors like reached file size limits. [bnc #676178, CVE-2011-1089] Bugs fixed: * Fix locking in _IO_cleanup. (bnc#796982) * Fix resolver when first query fails, but seconds succeeds. [bnc #767266]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1251-1
CVE-2013-1914
CVE-2012-3480
CVE-2012-3405
CVE-2012-3406
CVE-2010-4756
CVE-2011-1089
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Product(s): glibc
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26787
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26787
Title: RHSA-2011:1526 -- glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Low)
Description: The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. A flaw was found in the way the ldd utility identified dynamically linked libraries. If an attacker could trick a user into running ldd on a malicious binary, it could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running ldd. (CVE-2009-5064) It was found that the glibc addmntent() function, used by various mount helper utilities, did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab (mounted file systems table) file. If such utilities had the setuid bit set, a local attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the mtab file. (CVE-2011-1089) Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting the CVE-2011-1089 issue. This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these bug fixes and enhancements will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document, linked to in the References section. Users are advised to upgrade to these updated glibc packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues and add these enhancements.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1526
CVE-2009-5064
CVE-2011-1089
Version: 3
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product(s): glibc
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27008
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27008
Title: RHSA-2011:1691 -- util-linux-ng security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Low)
Description: The util-linux-ng packages contain a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux operating system to function. Multiple flaws were found in the way the mount and umount commands performed mtab (mounted file systems table) file updates. A local, unprivileged user allowed to mount or unmount file systems could use these flaws to corrupt the mtab file and create a stale lock file, preventing other users from mounting and unmounting file systems. (CVE-2011-1675, CVE-2011-1677) This update also fixes the following bugs: * Due to a hard coded limit of 128 devices, an attempt to run the "blkid -c" command on more than 128 devices caused blkid to terminate unexpectedly. This update increases the maximum number of devices to 8192 so that blkid no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#675999) * Previously, the "swapon -a" command did not detect device-mapper devices that were already in use. This update corrects the swapon utility to detect such devices as expected. (BZ#679741) * Prior to this update, the presence of an invalid line in the /etc/fstab file could cause the umount utility to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update applies a patch that corrects this error so that umount now correctly reports invalid lines and no longer crashes. (BZ#684203) * Previously, an attempt to use the wipefs utility on a partitioned device caused the utility to terminate unexpectedly with an error. This update adapts wipefs to only display a warning message in this situation. (BZ#696959) * When providing information on interprocess communication (IPC) facilities, the ipcs utility could previously display a process owner as a negative number if the user's UID was too large. This update adapts the underlying source code to make sure the UID values are now displayed correctly. (BZ#712158) * In the installation scriptlets, the uuidd package uses the chkconfig utility to enable and disable the uuidd service. Previously, this package did not depend on the chkconfig package, which could lead to errors during installation if chkconfig was not installed. This update adds chkconfig to the list of dependencies so that such errors no longer occur. (BZ#712808) * The previous version of the /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules file contained a statement that both this file and raw devices are deprecated. This is no longer true and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel supports this functionality. With this update, the aforementioned file no longer contains this incorrect statement. (BZ#716995) * Previously, an attempt to use the cfdisk utility to read the default Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 partition layout failed with an error. This update corrects this error and the cfdisk utility can now read the default partition layout as expected. (BZ#723352) * The previous version of the tailf(1) manual page incorrectly stated that users can use the "--lines=NUMBER" command line option to limit the number of displayed lines. However, the tailf utility does not allow the use of the equals sign (=) between the option and its argument. This update corrects this error. (BZ#679831) * The fstab(5) manual page has been updated to clarify that empty lines in the /etc/fstab configuration file are ignored. (BZ#694648) As well, this update adds the following enhancements: * A new fstrim utility has been added to the package. This utility allows the root user to discard unused blocks on a mounted file system. (BZ#692119) * The login utility has been updated to provide support for failed login attempts that are reported by PAM. (BZ#696731) * The lsblk utility has been updated to provide additional information about the topology and status of block devices. (BZ#723638) * The agetty utility has been updated to pass the hostname to the login utility. (BZ#726092) All users of util-linux-ng are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1691
CVE-2011-1675
CVE-2011-1677
Version: 3
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product(s): util-linux-ng
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27786
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27786
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2012-0307 -- util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update (low)
Description: [2.13-0.59.0.1.el5] - Merge UEK modification fix #10104470 - Import hwclock from util-linux-ng [Kris Van Hees] [2.13-0.59] - fix #768382 - CVE-2011-1675 CVE-2011-1677 util-linux various flaws [2.13-0.58] - fix #677452 - util-linux fails to build with gettext-0.17 [2.13-0.57] - fix #646300 - login doesn't update /var/run/utmp properly - fix #726572 - import missing fsfreeze into util-linux - fix #678430 - fdisk should not report error on 1gB LUNs - fix #699639 - mount man page is missing support for ext4/xfs - fix #650937 - blockdev man page missing information - fix #678407 - ipcs and ipcrm in wrong man section
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012-0307
CVE-2011-1675
CVE-2011-1677
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): util-linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27886
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27886
Title: ELSA-2011-1691 -- util-linux-ng security, bug fix, and enhancement update (low)
Description: [2.17.2-12.4] - fix CVE-2011-1675 - mount fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE - fix CVE-2011-1677 - umount may fail to remove /etc/mtab~ lock file [2.17.2-12.3] - fix fatal typos in patch for #723546 [2.17.2-12.2] - rename /etc/hushlogin to /etc/hushlogins (#696731) [2.17.2-12.1] - fix #723546 - Defects revealed by Coverity scan - fix #723352 - cfdisk cannot read default installer partitioning - fix #712158 - uid/gid overflow in ipcs - fix #696959 - wipefs(8) reject partitioned devices - fix #694648 - document blank line at head of fstab - fix #684203 - umount fails on inconsistent fstab - fix #679831 --lines does not work - fix #679741 - canonicalize swap device - fix #692119 - include fstrim tool - fix #675999 - blkid crashes on a server with more than 128 storage devices - fix #696731 - display failed login attempts - fix #726092 - Pass host name from agetty to login - fix #716995 - Remove Deprecation Statement in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules - fix #712808 - uuidd should depend on chkconfig - fix #723638 - Backport upstream extensions for lsblk (RHEL6.2)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-1691
CVE-2011-1675
CVE-2011-1677
Version: 3
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): util-linux-ng
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28049
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28049
Title: ELSA-2011-1526 -- glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (low)
Description: A flaw was found in the way the ldd utility identified dynamically linked libraries. If an attacker could trick a user into running ldd on a malicious binary, it could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running ldd. (CVE-2009-5064) It was found that the glibc addmntent() function, used by various mount helper utilities, did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab (mounted file systems table) file. If such utilities had the setuid bit set, a local attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the mtab file. (CVE-2011-1089)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-1526
CVE-2009-5064
CVE-2011-1089
Version: 3
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): glibc
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 105
Application 20

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-27 Name : VMSA-2012-0018: VMware security updates for vCSA and ESXi
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0018.nasl
2012-08-31 Name : VMSA-2012-0013 VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries.
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0013.nasl
2012-08-03 Name : Mandriva Update for util-linux MDVSA-2012:083 (util-linux)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_083.nasl
2012-08-03 Name : Mandriva Update for ncpfs MDVSA-2012:084 (ncpfs)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_084.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0125 centos4
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0125_glibc_centos4.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0126 centos5
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0126_glibc_centos5.nasl
2012-07-09 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2011:1526-03
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1526-03_glibc.nasl
2012-07-09 Name : RedHat Update for util-linux-ng RHSA-2011:1691-03
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1691-03_util-linux-ng.nasl
2012-03-12 Name : Ubuntu Update for eglibc USN-1396-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1396_1.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0125-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0125-01_glibc.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0126-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0126-01_glibc.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for util-linux RHSA-2012:0307-03
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0307-03_util-linux.nasl
2011-11-28 Name : Mandriva Update for glibc MDVSA-2011:178 (glibc)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_178.nasl
2011-10-14 Name : Mandriva Update for samba MDVSA-2011:148 (samba)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_148.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
75268 util-linux mount /etc/mtab~ Lock File Removal Weakness Unspecified Local Issue

74917 util-linux mount RLIMIT_FSIZE Value Handling mtab Corruption Local DoS

74883 GNU C Library addmntent Function mtab Write RLIMIT_FSIZE Value Handling Local...

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2012-09-27 IAVM : 2012-A-0153 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033884
2012-09-13 IAVM : 2012-A-0148 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033794

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