Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2006-6304 First vendor Publication 2006-12-14
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The do_coredump function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.19 sets the flag variable to O_EXCL but does not use it, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files via a rewrite attack during a core dump.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6304

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10797
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10797
Title: The do_coredump function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.19 sets the flag variable to O_EXCL but does not use it, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files via a rewrite attack during a core dump.
Description: The do_coredump function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.19 sets the flag variable to O_EXCL but does not use it, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files via a rewrite attack during a core dump.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-6304
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27615
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27615
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2010-0046 -- kernel security and bug fix update (important)
Description: [2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - Add entropy support to igb ( John Sobecki) [orabug 7607479] - [nfs] convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN [orabug 7689332] - [NET] Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support (Tina yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [MM] shrink zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [nfsd] fix failure of file creation from hpux client (Wen gang Wang) [orabug 7579314] - FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7708133] [2.6.18-164.11.1.el5] - [firewire] ohci: handle receive packets with zero data (Jay Fenlason) [547241 547242] {CVE-2009-4138} - [x86] sanity check for AMD northbridges (Andrew Jones) [549905 547518] - [x86_64] disable vsyscall in kvm guests (Glauber Costa) [550968 542612] - [fs] ext3: replace lock_super with explicit resize lock (Eric Sandeen) [549908 525100] - [fs] respect flag in do_coredump (Danny Feng) [544188 544189] {CVE-2009-4036} - [gfs2] make O_APPEND behave as expected (Steven Whitehouse) [547521 544342] - [fs] hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540740 540741] {CVE-2009-4020} - [fuse] prevent fuse_put_request on invalid pointer (Danny Feng) [538736 538737] {CVE-2009-4021} - [mm] call vfs_check_frozen after unlocking the spinlock (Amerigo Wang) [548370 541956] - [infiniband] init neigh->dgid.raw on bonding events (Doug Ledford) [543448 538067] - [scsi] gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539420 539421] {CVE-2009-3080} - [fs] gfs2: fix glock ref count issues (Steven Whitehouse) [544978 539240] - [net] call cond_resched in rt_run_flush (Amerigo Wang) [547530 517588] - [scsi] megaraid: fix sas permissions in sysfs (Casey Dahlin) [537312 537313] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939} - [ia64] kdump: restore registers in the stack on init (Takao Indoh ) [542582 515753] - [x86] kvm: don't ask HV for tsc khz if not using kvmclock (Glauber Costa ) [537027 531268] - [net] sched: fix panic in bnx2_poll_work (John Feeney ) [539686 526481] - [x86_64] fix 32-bit process register leak (Amerigo Wang ) [526797 526798] - [cpufreq] add option to avoid smi while calibrating (Matthew Garrett ) [537343 513649] - [kvm] use upstream kvm_get_tsc_khz (Glauber Costa ) [540896 531025] - [net] fix unbalance rtnl locking in rt_secret_reschedule (Neil Horman ) [549907 510067] - [net] r8169: imporved rx length check errors (Neil Horman ) [552913 552438] - [scsi] lpfc: fix FC ports offlined during target controller faults (Rob Evers ) [549906 516541] - [net] emergency route cache flushing fixes (Thomas Graf ) [545662 545663] {CVE-2009-4272} - [fs] fasync: split 'fasync_helper()' into separate add/remove functions (Danny Feng ) [548656 548657] {CVE-2009-4141} - [scsi] qla2xxx: NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable (Tom Coughlan ) [537317 537318] {CVE-2009-3556}
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2010-0046
CVE-2009-3889
CVE-2009-3939
CVE-2009-4020
CVE-2009-4021
CVE-2009-4138
CVE-2009-4141
CVE-2009-4272
CVE-2009-2910
CVE-2009-3080
CVE-2009-3556
CVE-2006-6304
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7446
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7446
Title: Linux Kernel Do_Coredump Security Bypass Vulnerability
Description: The do_coredump function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.19 sets the flag variable to O_EXCL but does not use it, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files via a rewrite attack during a core dump.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-6304
 Version: 5
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.0
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-04-16 Name : VMSA-2010-0009: ESXi utilities and ESX Service Console third party updates
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2010-0009.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2010:0046 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2010_0046_kernel_centos5_i386.nasl
2010-01-20 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0046-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2010_0046-01_kernel.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
31466 Linux Kernel fs/exec.c do_coredump() Function File Overwrite

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2010-01-28 IAVM : 2010-A-0015 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Red Hat Linux Kernel
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0022631

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-08 Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2010-0009_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-2010-0046.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-06-01 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2010-0009.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2010-0046.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2010-0046.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://secunia.com/advisories/23349
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21591
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0074/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5002
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
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