7.2 - USN-819-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Linux kernel vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-819-1	First vendor Publication	2009-08-19
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2009-08-19
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: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

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04

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 6.06 LTS:
linux-image-2.6.15-54-386 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-686 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-amd64-generic 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-amd64-k8 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-amd64-server 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-amd64-xeon 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-hppa32 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-hppa32-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-hppa64 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-hppa64-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-itanium 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-itanium-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-k7 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-mckinley 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-mckinley-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-powerpc 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-powerpc-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-powerpc64-smp 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-server 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-server-bigiron 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-sparc64 2.6.15-54.79
linux-image-2.6.15-54-sparc64-smp 2.6.15-54.79

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
linux-image-2.6.24-24-386 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-generic 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-hppa32 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-hppa64 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-itanium 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-lpia 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-lpiacompat 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-mckinley 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-openvz 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-powerpc 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-powerpc-smp 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-powerpc64-smp 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-rt 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-server 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-sparc64 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-sparc64-smp 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-virtual 2.6.24-24.59
linux-image-2.6.24-24-xen 2.6.24-24.59

Ubuntu 8.10:
linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic 2.6.27-14.39
linux-image-2.6.27-14-server 2.6.27-14.39
linux-image-2.6.27-14-virtual 2.6.27-14.39

Ubuntu 9.04:
linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-imx51 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-iop32x 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-ixp4xx 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-lpia 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-server 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-versatile 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-virtual 2.6.28-15.49

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

Details follow:

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes discovered that Linux did not correctly initialize certain socket operation function pointers. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. By default, Ubuntu 8.04 and later with a non-zero /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr setting were not vulnerable.