Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 245846 A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris i915 DRM Driver May Cause a Kernel Panic
Informations
Name SUN-245846 First vendor Publication 2008-11-14
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2008-11-14
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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.7 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: OpenSolaris

An insufficient resource management security vulnerability in the Solaris i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver (i915(7d)) may allow an unprivileged local user to overwrite arbitrary portions of kernel memory, which may cause a kernel panic. This is a type of denial of service (DoS).

This issue is also referenced in the following document:


State: Resolved
First released: 14-Nov-2008
Sun Alert Link:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-245846-1

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_245846_a_security

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11542
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11542
Title: The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.
Description: The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-3831
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
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
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_679_1.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:1017-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_1017-01_kernel.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-8929
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_8929_kernel_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2008-8980
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_8980_kernel_fc8.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
2009-01-20 Name : SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:003 (kernel-debug)
File : nvt/suse_sa_2009_003.nasl
2008-11-01 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1655-1 (linux-2.6.24)
File : nvt/deb_1655_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49183 Linux Kernel DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR Crafted IOCTL Request Local Privilege Escalation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-1017.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_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-1017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_kernel-090114.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-659-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-679-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-1017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-8929.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-8980.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1655.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO