This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel contains various security fixes and lots of other bugfixes.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - local users could crash the system by causing a NULL     deref in the keyctl_session_to_parent() function.
    (CVE-2010-2960)

  - local users could crash the system by causing a NULL     deref via IRDA sockets. (CVE-2010-2954)

  - local users could crash the system by causing a NULL     deref in ftrace. (CVE-2010-3079)

  - several kernel functions could leak kernel stack memory     contents. (CVE-2010-3078 / CVE-2010-3297 / CVE-2010-3298     / CVE-2010-3081 / CVE-2010-3296)

  - local users could cause dereference of an uninitialized     pointer via /dev/sequencer. (CVE-2010-3080)

  - local users could corrupt kernel heap memory via ROSE     sockets. (CVE-2010-3310)

  - local users could write to any kernel memory location     via the i915 GEM ioctl interface Additionally this     update restores the compat_alloc_userspace() inline     function. (CVE-2010-2962)

- Fix possible local privilege escalation on x86_64     systems (CVE-2010-3081, CVE-2010-3301).

    - Mitigate denial of service attack with large argument       lists.

    - Fix possible hang on suspend introduced in 2.6.34.6-54

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3904)

Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces.
(CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849, CVE-2010-3850)

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly filter registers on 64bit kernels when performing 32bit system calls. On a 64bit system, a local attacker could manipulate 32bit system calls to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3301)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the TTY driver. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-4895)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0435)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the MOVE_EXT ext4 ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could overwrite append-only files, leading to potential data loss. (CVE-2010-2066)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the swapexit xfs ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to read from write-only files, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2226)

Suresh Jayaraman discovered that CIFS did not correctly validate certain response packats. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2248)

Ben Hutchings discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly check certain sizes. A local attacker could perform malicious ioctl calls that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2478, CVE-2010-3084)

James Chapman discovered that L2TP did not correctly evaluate checksum capabilities. If an attacker could make malicious routing changes, they could crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2495)

Neil Brown discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly check certain write requests. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that could crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-2521)

David Howells discovered that DNS resolution in CIFS could be spoofed.
A local attacker could exploit this to control DNS replies, leading to a loss of privacy and possible privilege escalation. (CVE-2010-2524)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the btrfs filesystem did not correctly validate permissions when using the clone function. A local attacker could overwrite the contents of file handles that were opened for append-only, or potentially read arbitrary contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2537, CVE-2010-2538)

Bob Peterson discovered that GFS2 rename operations did not correctly validate certain sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2798)

Eric Dumazet discovered that many network functions could leak kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2942, CVE-2010-3477)

Dave Chinner discovered that the XFS filesystem did not correctly order inode lookups when exported by NFS. A remote attacker could exploit this to read or write disk blocks that had changed file assignment or had become unlinked, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-2943)

Sergey Vlasov discovered that JFS did not correctly handle certain extended attributes. A local attacker could bypass namespace access rules, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2946)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to crash or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2954)

Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2955)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-2960)

Kees Cook discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver did not correctly validate memory regions. A local attacker with access to the video card could read and write arbitrary kernel memory to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2962)

Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2963)

Toshiyuki Okajima discovered that ext4 did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or overwrite the last block of large files. (CVE-2010-3015)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the AIO subsystem did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3067)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain XFS ioctls leaked kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3078)

Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3079)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3080)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3296, CVE-2010-3297, CVE-2010-3298)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ROSE driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker with access to a ROSE network device could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3310)

Thomas Dreibholz discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle appending packet chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3432)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3437)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Sound subsystem did not correctly validate parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3442)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3705)

Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3858)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3859)

Kees Cook discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3861)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CAN protocol on 64bit systems did not correctly calculate the size of certain buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2010-3874)

Kees Cook and Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the shm interface did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4072)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4073)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RME Hammerfall DSP audio interface driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4080, CVE-2010-4081)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the VIA video driver did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4082)

James Bottomley discovered that the ICP vortex storage array controller driver did not validate certain sizes. A local attacker on a 64bit system could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4157)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could create malicious filters to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4158)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel L2TP implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to to crash the kernel, or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-4160)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain iovec operations did not calculate page counts correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4162)

Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4164)

Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker could make a specially crafted socket call to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4165)

Dave Jones discovered that the mprotect system call did not correctly handle merged VMAs. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4169)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS protocol did not correctly check ioctl arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4175)

Alan Cox discovered that the HCI UART driver did not correctly check if a write operation was available. If the mmap_min-addr sysctl was changed from the Ubuntu default to a value of 0, a local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4242)

Brad Spengler discovered that the kernel did not correctly account for userspace memory allocations during exec() calls. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all system memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4243)

Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active sockets. A local attacker could exploit this to allocate all available kernel memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4249)

It was discovered that named pipes did not correctly handle certain fcntl calls. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4256)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the kernel did not correctly handle process cleanup after triggering a recoverable kernel bug. If a local attacker were able to trigger certain kinds of kernel bugs, they could create a specially crafted process to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2010-4258)

Kees Cook discovered that some ethtool functions did not correctly clear heap memory. A local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges could exploit this to read portions of kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4655)

Frank Arnold discovered that the IGMP protocol did not correctly parse certain packets. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-0709).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0007 advisory.

    - [kvm] x86: zero kvm_vcpu_events->interrupt.pad (Marcelo Tosatti) [665471 665409] {CVE-2010-4525}

    email_6.RHSA-2011-0007 178L, 11970C written
    - [netdrv] igb: only use vlan_gro_receive if vlans are registered (Stefan Assmann) [652804 660192]     {CVE-2010-4263}
    - [kernel] posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec (Oleg Nesterov) [656267     656268] {CVE-2010-4248}
    - [fs] bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data (Danny Feng) [652530 652531]     {CVE-2010-4162}
    - [net] can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow (Danny Feng) [651846 651847] {CVE-2010-3874}
    - [net] filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memory (Jiri Pirko) [651704 651705]     {CVE-2010-4158}
    - [net] inet_diag: Make sure we actually run the same bytecode we audited (Jiri Pirko) [651268 651269]     {CVE-2010-3880}
    - [v4l] ivtvfb: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [648832 648833]     {CVE-2010-4079}
    - [drm] via/ioctl.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Dave Airlie) [648718 648719]     {CVE-2010-4082}
    - [char] nozomi: clear data before returning to userspace on TIOCGICOUNT (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [648705     648706] {CVE-2010-4077}
    - [serial] clean data before filling it on TIOCGICOUNT (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [648702 648703]     {CVE-2010-4075}
    - [net] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflight (Neil Horman) [656761 656762] {CVE-2010-4249}
    - [block] check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov() (Danny Feng) [652958 652959]     {CVE-2010-4163}
    - [net] Limit sendto()/recvfrom()/iovec total length to INT_MAX (Jiri Pirko) [651894 651895]     {CVE-2010-4160}
    - [net] bluetooth: Fix missing NULL check (Jarod Wilson) [655667 655668] {CVE-2010-4242}
    - [kernel] ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions (Danny Feng) [648694 648695]     {CVE-2010-4073}
    - [kernel] shm: fix information leak to userland (Danny Feng) [648688 648689] {CVE-2010-4072}
    - [fs] xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Dave Chinner) [630808 630809] {CVE-2010-3078}
    - [net] fix rds_iovec page count overflow (Jiri Pirko) [647423 647424] {CVE-2010-3865}
    - [usb] serial/mos*: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Don Zickus) [648697 648698]     {CVE-2010-4074}
    - [kernel] ecryptfs_uid_hash() buffer overflow (Jerome Marchand) [626320 611388] {CVE-2010-2492}
    - [sound] seq/oss - Fix double-free at error path of snd_seq_oss_open() (Jaroslav Kysela) [630554 630555]     {CVE-2010-3080}
    - [netdrv] prevent reading uninitialized memory in hso driver (Thomas Graf) [633143 633144]     {CVE-2010-3298}
    - [fs] aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit (Jeff Moyer) [629450 629451] {CVE-2010-3067}
    - [net] fix info leak from kernel in ethtool operation (Neil Horman) [646727 646728] {CVE-2010-3861}
    - [net] packet: fix information leak to userland (Jiri Pirko) [649899 649900] {CVE-2010-3876}
    - [net] clean up info leak in act_police (Neil Horman) [636393 636394] {CVE-2010-3477}
    - [net] Fix priv escalation in rds protocol (Neil Horman) [642899 642900] {CVE-2010-3904}
    - [v4l] Remove compat code for VIDIOCSMICROCODE (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [642472 642473] {CVE-2010-2963}
    - [kernel] tracing: do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter (Jiri Olsa) [631625 631626] {CVE-2010-3079}
    - [drm] fix ioctls infoleak (Danny Feng) [626319 621437] {CVE-2010-2803}
    - [netdrv] wireless extensions: fix kernel heap content leak (John Linville) [628437 628438]     {CVE-2010-2955}
    - [netdrv] niu: buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL (Danny Feng) [632071 632072] {CVE-2010-3084}
    - [virt] KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt (Avi Kivity) [639884 639885] {CVE-2010-3698}
    - [drm] i915: prevent arbitrary kernel memory write (Jerome Marchand) [637690 637691] {CVE-2010-2962}
    - [kernel] prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new() (Jerome Marchand) [638485 638486] {CVE-2010-3442}
    - [block] Fix pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor range check (Jerome Marchand) [638088 638089] {CVE-2010-3437}
    - [net] sctp: Fix out-of-bounds reading in sctp_asoc_get_hmac() (Jiri Pirko) [640461 640462]     {CVE-2010-3705}
    - [net] sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config() (Jiri Pirko) [637681 637682]     {CVE-2010-3432}
    - [misc] make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() (Xiaotian Feng) [634465 634466]     {CVE-2010-3081}
    - [x86] kernel: fix IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerability (Xiaotian Feng) [634451 634452]     {CVE-2010-3301}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	名稱	產品	系列	已發布	已更新	嚴重性
51612	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3276 / 3280 / 3284)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2011/1/21	2021/1/14	high
49297	Fedora 13 : kernel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13 (2010-14890)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	2010/9/21	2021/1/11	high
65101	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1083-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2013/3/9	2023/5/14	critical
68177	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0007)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	2013/7/12	2026/2/9	high

偵測

搜尋 Plugin

high

high

critical

high