Executive Summary

Summary
Title Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-662-1 First vendor Publication 2008-11-05
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2008-11-05
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:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 8.3 Attack Range Adjacent network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 6.5 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10:
linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.16
linux-image-2.6.27-7-server 2.6.27-7.16
linux-image-2.6.27-7-virtual 2.6.27-7.16

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that the Linux kernel could be made to hang temporarily when mounting corrupted ext2/3 filesystems. If a user were tricked into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, a remote attacker could cause system hangs, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-3528)

Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper did not correctly handle long ESSIDs. For a system using ndiswrapper, a physically near-by attacker could generate specially crafted wireless network traffic and execute arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2008-4395)

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-662-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10852
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10852
Title: The error-reporting functionality in (1) fs/ext2/dir.c, (2) fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly (3) fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary system hang) by mounting a filesystem that has corrupted dir-i_size and dir-i_blocks values and performing (a) read or (b) write operations. NOTE: there are limited scenarios in which this crosses privilege boundaries.
Description: The error-reporting functionality in (1) fs/ext2/dir.c, (2) fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly (3) fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary system hang) by mounting a filesystem that has corrupted dir->i_size and dir->i_blocks values and performing (a) read or (b) write operations. NOTE: there are limited scenarios in which this crosses privilege boundaries.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-3528
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13632
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13632
Title: DSA-1731-1 ndiswrapper -- buffer overflow
Description: Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.28-1+etch1. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release. For the testing distribution and the unstable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1731-1
CVE-2008-4395
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ndiswrapper
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17633
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17633
Title: USN-662-2 -- linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/24 vulnerability
Description: USN-662-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ndiswrapper in Ubuntu 8.10.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-662-2
CVE-2008-4395
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
 Product(s): linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17666
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17666
Title: USN-662-1 -- linux vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that the Linux kernel could be made to hang temporarily when mounting corrupted ext2/3 filesystems.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-662-1
CVE-2008-3528
CVE-2008-4395
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 8.10
 Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8321
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8321
Title: DSA-1731 ndiswrapper -- buffer overflow
Description: Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1731
CVE-2008-4395
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ndiswrapper
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8642
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8642
Title: VMware kernel fs/ext2/dir.c fs/ext3/dir.c and possibly fs/ext4/dir.c vulnerability
Description: The error-reporting functionality in (1) fs/ext2/dir.c, (2) fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly (3) fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary system hang) by mounting a filesystem that has corrupted dir->i_size and dir->i_blocks values and performing (a) read or (b) write operations. NOTE: there are limited scenarios in which this crosses privilege boundaries.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-3528
 Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.0
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:0326 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0326_kernel_centos5_i386.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for Linux kernel
File : nvt/sles10_kernel6.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for Linux kernel
File : nvt/sles9p5039274.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for ndiswrapper
File : nvt/sles9p5039260.nasl
2009-06-30 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-6846 (kernel)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_6846.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-5383 (kernel)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_5383.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2008:224 (kernel)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_224.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2008:224-1 (kernel)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_224_1.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0326
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0326.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0326 (kernel)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0326.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/24 vulnerability USN-662-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_662_2.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerability USN-662-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_662_1.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1731-1 (ndiswrapper)
File : nvt/deb_1731_1.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0972-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0972-01_kernel.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0972_kernel_centos4_x86_64.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0972_kernel_centos4_i386.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-11618
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11618_kernel_fc9.nasl
2009-02-02 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-0816 (kernel)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0816.nasl
2009-01-26 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0009
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0009.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:051
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_051.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:052
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_052.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:053
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_053.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:056
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_056.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200901-01 (ndiswrapper)
File : nvt/glsa_200901_01.nasl
2008-12-23 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1687-1 (linux-2.6)
File : nvt/deb_1687_1.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1681-1 (linux-2.6.24)
File : nvt/deb_1681_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49726 Linux Kernel ndiswrapper Module ESSID Handling Multiple Remote Overflows
49088 Linux Kernel fs/ext*/dir.c Error Reporting Functionality Corrupted Filesystem...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-03 Name : The remote host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2009-0016_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0972.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0326.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20090401_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20081119_kernel_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-05-17 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-5735.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-05-17 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-5667.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_ndiswrapper-5834.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0326.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-11-23 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2009-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12315.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-5668.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_kernel-081022.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_ndiswrapper-081107.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-0972.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-224.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-662-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-662-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-01 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0326.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1731.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200901-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1687.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1681.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_ndiswrapper-5833.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-03 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-5734.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0972.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_kernel-5751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_kernel-5700.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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