Executive Summary



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Summary
Title kernel security and bug fix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2013:0594 First vendor Publication 2013-03-05
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2013-03-05
Severity (Vendor) Low Revision 01

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:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, noarch, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, noarch, x86_64

3. Description:

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues:

* Buffer overflow flaws were found in the udf_load_logicalvol() function in the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker with physical access to a system could use these flaws to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2012-3400, Low)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Previously, race conditions could sometimes occur in interrupt handling on the Emulex BladeEngine 2 (BE2) controllers, causing the network adapter to become unresponsive. This update provides a series of patches for the be2net driver, which prevents the race from occurring. The network cards using BE2 chipsets no longer hang due to incorrectly handled interrupt events. (BZ#884704)

* A boot-time memory allocation pool (the DMI heap) is used to keep the list of Desktop Management Interface (DMI) devices during the system boot. Previously, the size of the DMI heap was only 2048 bytes on the AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures and the DMI heap space could become easily depleted on some systems, such as the IBM System x3500 M2. A subsequent OOM failure could, under certain circumstances, lead to a NULL pointer entry being stored in the DMI device list. Consequently, scanning of such a corrupted DMI device list resulted in a kernel panic. The boot-time memory allocation pool for the AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures has been enlarged to 4096 bytes and the routines responsible for populating the DMI device list have been modified to skip entries if their name string is NULL. The kernel no longer panics in this scenario. (BZ#902683)

* The size of the buffer used to print the kernel taint output on kernel panic was too small, which resulted in the kernel taint output not being printed completely sometimes. With this update, the size of the buffer has been adjusted and the kernel taint output is now displayed properly. (BZ#905829)

* The code to print the kernel taint output contained a typographical error. Consequently, the kernel taint output, which is displayed on kernel panic, could not provide taint error messages for unsupported hardware. This update fixes the typo and the kernel taint output is now displayed correctly. (BZ#885063)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

To install kernel packages manually, use "rpm -ivh [package]". Do not use "rpm -Uvh" as that will remove the running kernel binaries from your system. You may use "rpm -e" to remove old kernels after determining that the new kernel functions properly on your system.

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

843139 - CVE-2012-3400 kernel: udf: buffer overflow when parsing sparing table

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0594.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17162
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17162
Title: USN-1562-1 -- linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerability
Description: The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1562-1
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): linux-lts-backport-natty
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17569
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17569
Title: USN-1557-1 -- linux vulnerability
Description: The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1557-1
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 11.04
Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18101
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18101
Title: USN-1556-1 -- linux-ec2 vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1556-1
CVE-2012-0044
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): linux-ec2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18118
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18118
Title: USN-1555-1 -- linux vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1555-1
CVE-2012-0044
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20884
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20884
Title: RHSA-2013:0594: kernel security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in the udf_load_logicalvol function in fs/udf/super.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UDF filesystem.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:0594-00
CESA-2013:0594
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23166
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23166
Title: ELSA-2013:0594: kernel security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in the udf_load_logicalvol function in fs/udf/super.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UDF filesystem.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:0594-00
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27623
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27623
Title: ELSA-2013-0594-1 -- kernel security and bug fix update (low)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-348.2.1.0.1] - [oprofile] x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] export __get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 14277030] - [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367] - [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763] - [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272] - [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] - [usb] USB: fix __must_check warnings in drivers/usb/core/ (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix endpoint device creation (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix refcount bug in endpoint removal (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-0594-1
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 5
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
ocfs2
oracleasm
kernel-PAE
kernel-PAE-devel
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-devel
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-headers
kernel-xen
kernel-xen-devel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27644
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27644
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-0594 -- kernel security and bug fix update (low)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-348.2.1] - [misc] tainted flags, fix buffer size (Prarit Bhargava) [905829 901547] - [net] be2net: fix unconditionally returning IRQ_HANDLED in INTx (Ivan Vecera) [884704 878316] - [net] be2net: fix INTx ISR for interrupt behaviour on BE2 (Ivan Vecera) [884704 878316] - [net] be2net: fix a possible events_get() race on BE2 (Ivan Vecera) [884704 878316] - [firmware] Expand kernel boot-time storage for DMI table structs (Lenny Szubowicz) [902683 862865] - [fs] udf: Fortify loading of sparing table (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843140 843141] {CVE-2012-3400} - [fs] udf: Improve table length check to avoid possible overflow (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843140 843141] {CVE-2012-3400} - [fs] udf: Avoid run away loop when partition table is corrupted (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843140 843141] {CVE-2012-3400}
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-0594
CVE-2012-3400
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3
Os 1664

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-11-09 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1426 centos6
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_1426_kernel_centos6.nasl
2012-11-09 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2012:1426-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_1426-01_kernel.nasl
2012-09-11 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-natty USN-1562-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1562_1.nasl
2012-09-07 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1556-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1556_1.nasl
2012-09-07 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1557-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1557_1.nasl
2012-08-17 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1539-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1539_1.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1514-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1514_1.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1529-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1529_1.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1532-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1532_1.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1533-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1533_1.nasl

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2015-07-16 IAVM : 2015-A-0150 - Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Juniper Networks CTPView
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0061073

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2012-1391-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0812-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-1491.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2012-142.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-2044.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0594-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0594.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-2507.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-2043.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-07 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130305_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-07 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0594.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-06 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0594.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-120714.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-120805.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-09 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-08 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20121106_kernel_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-07 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-8325.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-8324.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1562-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-07 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1556-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-07 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1557-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1555-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1539-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1514-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1529-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1532-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1533-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:56:57
  • Multiple Updates
2013-03-06 00:18:25
  • First insertion