Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | kernel security and bug fix update |
Informations | |||
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Name | RHSA-2008:0154 | First vendor Publication | 2008-03-05 |
Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2008-03-05 |
Severity (Vendor) | Important | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:N/I:N/A:C) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 7.8 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Problem Description: Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, noarch, ppc, s390x, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. These updated packages fix the following security issues: * a flaw in the hypervisor for hosts running on Itanium architectures allowed an Intel VTi domain to read arbitrary physical memory from other Intel VTi domains, which could make information available to unauthorized users. (CVE-2007-6207, Important) * two buffer overflow flaws were found in ISDN subsystem. A local unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5938: Important, CVE-2007-6063: Moderate) * a possible NULL pointer dereference was found in the subsystem used for showing CPU information, as used by CHRP systems on PowerPC architectures. This may have allowed a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (crash). (CVE-2007-6694, Moderate) * a flaw was found in the handling of zombie processes. A local user could create processes that would not be properly reaped, possibly causing a denial of service. (CVE-2006-6921, Moderate) As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs: * a bug was found in the Linux kernel audit subsystem. When the audit daemon was setup to log the execve system call with a large number of arguments, the kernel could run out of memory, causing a kernel panic. * on IBM System z architectures, using the IBM Hardware Management Console to toggle IBM FICON channel path ids (CHPID) caused a file ID miscompare, possibly causing data corruption. * when running the IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32EL) or a Java VM on Itanium architectures, a bug in the address translation in the hypervisor caused the wrong address to be registered, causing Dom0 to hang. * on Itanium architectures, frequent Corrected Platform Error errors may have caused the hypervisor to hang. * when enabling a CPU without hot plug support, routines for checking the presence of the CPU were missing. The CPU tried to access its own resources, causing a kernel panic. * after updating to kernel-2.6.18-53.el5, a bug in the CCISS driver caused the HP Array Configuration Utility CLI to become unstable, possibly causing a system hang, or a kernel panic. * a bug in NFS directory caching could have caused different hosts to have different views of NFS directories. * on Itanium architectures, the Corrected Machine Check Interrupt masked hot-added CPUs as disabled. * when running Oracle database software on the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures, if an SGA larger than 4GB was created, and had hugepages allocated to it, the hugepages were not freed after database shutdown. * in a clustered environment, when two or more NFS clients had the same logical volume mounted, and one of them modified a file on the volume, NULL characters may have been inserted, possibly causing data corruption. These updated packages resolve several severe issues in the lpfc driver: * a system hang after LUN discovery. * a general fault protection, a NULL pointer dereference, or slab corruption could occur while running a debug on the kernel. * the inability to handle kernel paging requests in "lpfc_get_scsi_buf". * erroneous structure references caused certain FC discovery routines to reference and change "lpfc_nodelist" structures, even after they were freed. * the lpfc driver failed to interpret certain fields correctly, causing tape backup software to fail. Tape drives reported "Illegal Request". * the lpfc driver did not clear structures correctly, resulting in SCSI I/Os being rejected by targets, and causing errors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 302921 - CVE-2006-6921 kernel: denial of service with wedged processes 310651 - audit: Logging execve arguments, out of memory in audit_expand (kernel panic) 385861 - CVE-2007-5938 NULL dereference in iwl driver 392101 - CVE-2007-6063 Linux Kernel isdn_net_setcfg buffer overflow 396751 - CVE-2007-6694 /proc/cpuinfo DoS on some ppc machines 402911 - LTC39906-[BBDQ] FICON DS8000: File ID Miscompare after CHPID off via HMC 406881 - CVE-2007-6207 [5.2][XEN] Security: some HVM domain can access another domain memory. 424191 - [Xen][5.1.z] Running IA32EL or java-vm causes dom0 hung 424271 - Severe issues in 5.1 lpfc driver: Request update to 8.1.10.12 428290 - [Xen ia64] hypervisor sometimes hangs on Corrected Platform Errors 429108 - [5.1] Panic if user enable a cpu which is not prepared for hotplug. 429515 - scsi: cciss - incompatability between hpacucli and RHEL 5.1 Kernel 429539 - NFS: Fix directory caching problem - with test case and patch. 430632 - CMCI is left disabled on hot-added processors 431522 - RHEL 5.1 regression in hugepages due to pagetable sharing patch 432078 - Null bytes in files access by 2 or more NFS clients |
Original Source
Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0154.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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25 % | CWE-399 | Resource Management Errors |
25 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
25 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
25 % | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10787 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10787 | ||
Title: | The iwl_set_rate function in compatible/iwl3945-base.c in iwlwifi 1.1.21 and earlier dereferences an iwl_get_hw_mode return value without checking for NULL, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors during module initialization. | ||
Description: | The iwl_set_rate function in compatible/iwl3945-base.c in iwlwifi 1.1.21 and earlier dereferences an iwl_get_hw_mode return value without checking for NULL, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors during module initialization. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2007-5938 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS Linux 5 Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6514 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6514 | ||
Title: | Linux Kernel ISDN_Net.C Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability | ||
Description: | Buffer overflow in the isdn_net_setcfg function in isdn_net.c in Linux kernel 2.6.23 allows local users to have an unknown impact via a crafted argument to the isdn_ioctl function. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2007-6063 | Version: | 1 |
Platform(s): | VMWare ESX Server 3.5 | Product(s): | |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2011-08-09 | Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:0001-01 centos2 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0001-01_kernel_centos2_i386.nasl |
2009-04-09 | Name : Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2008:112 (kernel) File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_112.nasl |
2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-618-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_618_1.nasl |
2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.17/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-574-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_574_1.nasl |
2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-614-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_614_1.nasl |
2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities USN-578-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_578_1.nasl |
2009-03-06 | Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0154-01 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0154-01_kernel.nasl |
2009-03-06 | Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0973-03 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0973-03_kernel.nasl |
2009-03-06 | Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0055-01 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0055-01_kernel.nasl |
2009-02-27 | Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0973 centos3 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0973_kernel_centos3_i386.nasl |
2009-02-27 | Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0973 centos3 x86_64 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0973_kernel_centos3_x86_64.nasl |
2009-02-27 | Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0055 centos4 x86_64 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0055_kernel_centos4_x86_64.nasl |
2009-02-27 | Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0055 centos4 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0055_kernel_centos4_i386.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-5454 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_5454_kernel_fc8.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-0742 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0742_kernel_fc7.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-0748 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0748_kernel_fc8.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-0958 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0958_kernel_fc7.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-0984 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_0984_kernel_fc8.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-3873 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3873_kernel_fc8.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-4043 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_4043_kernel_fc7.nasl |
2009-02-16 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-1422 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1422_kernel_fc7.nasl |
2009-02-16 | Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-1423 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1423_kernel_fc8.nasl |
2009-02-10 | Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0001-01 (kernel) File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0001_01.nasl |
2009-01-28 | Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2007:064 File : nvt/gb_suse_2007_064.nasl |
2009-01-13 | Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0001 File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0001.nasl |
2009-01-07 | Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0787 File : nvt/RHSA_2008_0787.nasl |
2008-05-12 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1565-1 (linux-2.6) File : nvt/deb_1565_1.nasl |
2008-03-11 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1503-2 (kernel-source-2.4.27 (2.4.27-10sarge7)) File : nvt/deb_1503_2.nasl |
2008-02-28 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1504-1 (kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-17sarge1)) File : nvt/deb_1504_1.nasl |
2008-02-28 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1503-1 (kernel-source-2.4.27 (2.4.27-10sarge6)) File : nvt/deb_1503_1.nasl |
2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1436-1 (linux-2.6) File : nvt/deb_1436_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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44749 | iwlwifi compatible/iwl3945-base.c iwl_set_rate Function Module Initialization... |
41341 | Xen mov_to_rr Cross-Domain Memory Disclosure |
40911 | Linux Kernel on PowerPC chrp/setup.c chrp_show_cpuinfo Function Local DoS |
39240 | Linux Kernel isdn_net.c isdn_net_setcfg() Function Local Overflow |
37125 | Linux Kernel Init Prevention Process Handling Local DoS |
Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)
Date | Description |
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2009-10-22 | IAVM : 2009-A-0105 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware Products Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0021867 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2016-03-03 | Name : The remote host is missing a security-related patch. File : vmware_VMSA-2009-0014_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2008-2005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0939.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0055.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0154.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0973.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20081216_kernel_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20080305_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_20071101_kernel_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20080131_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-4745.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2010-01-06 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2008-0154.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-10-19 | Name : The remote VMware ESX host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : vmware_VMSA-2009-0014.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-04-23 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2007-0939.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-04-23 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-01-09 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-12-17 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0973.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-12-17 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2008-0973.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-06-24 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-618-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-06-04 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-614-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-05-02 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-03-07 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0154.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-25 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1504.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-25 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1503.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-14 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-578-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-05 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-574-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-05 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2008-0055.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-01 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0055.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-02-01 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_kernel-4929.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-01-08 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_kernel-4752.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2007-12-24 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1436.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2007-12-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_kernel-4741.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2007-11-02 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0939.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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