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Fedora Core 2 : kernel-2.6.10-1.8_FC2 (2005-014)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 16134

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update rebases the kernel to match the upstream 2.6.10 release, and adds a number of security fixes by means of adding the latest -ac patch.

CVE-2004-1235 Paul Starzetz from isec.pl found a problem in the binary format loaders uselib() function that could lead to potential priveledge escalation.
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt

NO-CAN-ASSIGNED Brad Spengler found several problems.

 - An integer overflow in the random poolsize sysctl handler.

 - SCSI ioctl integer overflow and information leak.

 - RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bypass and unprivileged user DoS.

NO-CAN-ASSIGNED Coverity Inc. found a number of bugs with their automated source checker in coda, xfs, network bridging, rose network protocol, and the sdla wan driver. http://linuxbugs.coverity.com

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt

http://linuxbugs.coverity.com

http://www.nessus.org/u?3197ea10

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 16134

File Name: fedora_2005-014.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-sourcecode, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1235

FEDORA: 2005-014