The mmap function in the Linux Kernel 2.6.10 can be used to create memory maps with a start address beyond the end address, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash).

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2004-2302     A race condition in the sysfs filesystem allows local     users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of     service (crash).

  - CVE-2005-0756     Alexander Nyberg discovered that the ptrace() system     call does not properly verify addresses on the amd64     architecture which can be exploited by a local attacker     to crash the kernel.

  - CVE-2005-0757     A problem in the offset handling in the xattr file     system code for ext3 has been discovered that may allow     users on 64-bit systems that have access to an ext3     filesystem with extended attributes to cause the kernel     to crash.

  - CVE-2005-1265     Chris Wright discovered that the mmap() function could     create illegal memory maps that could be exploited by a     local user to crash the kernel or potentially execute     arbitrary code.

  - CVE-2005-1761     A vulnerability on the IA-64 architecture can lead local     attackers to overwrite kernel memory and crash the     kernel.

  - CVE-2005-1762     A vulnerability has been discovered in the ptrace()     system call on the amd64 architecture that allows a     local attacker to cause the kernel to crash.

  - CVE-2005-1763     A buffer overflow in the ptrace system call for 64-bit     architectures allows local users to write bytes into     arbitrary kernel memory.

  - CVE-2005-1765     Zou Nan Hai has discovered that a local user could cause     the kernel to hang on the amd64 architecture after     invoking syscall() with specially crafted arguments.

  - CVE-2005-1767     A vulnerability has been discovered in the stack segment     fault handler that could allow a local attacker to cause     a stack exception that will lead the kernel to crash     under certain circumstances.

  - CVE-2005-2456     Balazs Scheidler discovered that a local attacker could     call setsockopt() with an invalid xfrm_user policy     message which would cause the kernel to write beyond the     boundaries of an array and crash.

  - CVE-2005-2458     Vladimir Volovich discovered a bug in the zlib routines     which are also present in the Linux kernel and allows     remote attackers to crash the kernel.

  - CVE-2005-2459     Another vulnerability has been discovered in the zlib     routines which are also present in the Linux kernel and     allows remote attackers to crash the kernel.

  - CVE-2005-2548     Peter Sandstrom noticed that snmpwalk from a remote host     could cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null     dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a     function call with the wrong argument.

  - CVE-2005-2801     Andreas Gruenbacher discovered a bug in the ext2 and     ext3 file systems. When data areas are to be shared     among two inodes not all information were compared for     equality, which could expose wrong ACLs for files.

  - CVE-2005-2872     Chad Walstrom discovered that the ipt_recent kernel     module on 64-bit processors such as AMD64 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic)     via certain attacks such as SSH brute force.

  - CVE-2005-3105     The mprotect code on Itanium IA-64 Montecito processors     does not properly maintain cache coherency as required     by the architecture, which allows local users to cause a     denial of service and possibly corrupt data by modifying     PTE protections.

  - CVE-2005-3106     A race condition in the thread management may allow     local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) when     threads are sharing memory and waiting for a thread that     has just performed an exec.

  - CVE-2005-3107     When one thread is tracing another thread that shares     the same memory map a local user could cause a denial of     service (deadlock) by forcing a core dump when the     traced thread is in the TASK_TRACED state.

  - CVE-2005-3108     A bug in the ioremap() system call has been discovered     on the amd64 architecture that could allow local users     to cause a denial of service or an information leak when     performing a lookup of a non-existent memory page.

  - CVE-2005-3109     The HFS and HFS+ (hfsplus) modules allow local attackers     to cause a denial of service (oops) by using hfsplus to     mount a filesystem that is not hfsplus.

  - CVE-2005-3110     A race condition in the ebtables netfilter module on an     SMP system running under high load may allow remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2005-3271     Roland McGrath discovered that exec() does not properly     clear posix-timers in multi-threaded environments, which     results in a resource leak and could allow a large     number of multiple local users to cause a denial of     service by using more posix-timers than specified by the     quota for a single user.

  - CVE-2005-3272     The kernel allows remote attackers to poison the bridge     forwarding table using frames that have already been     dropped by filtering, which can cause the bridge to     forward spoofed packets.

  - CVE-2005-3273     The ioctl for the packet radio ROSE protocol does not     properly verify the arguments when setting a new router,     which allows attackers to trigger out-of-bounds errors.

  - CVE-2005-3274     A race condition on SMP systems allows local users to     cause a denial of service (null dereference) by causing     a connection timer to expire while the connection table     is being flushed before the appropriate lock is     acquired.

  - CVE-2005-3275     An error in the NAT code allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by causing     two packets for the same protocol to be NATed at the     same time, which leads to memory corruption.

  - CVE-2005-3276     A missing memory cleanup in the thread handling routines     before copying data into userspace allows a user process     to obtain sensitive information.

This update also contains a number of corrections for issues that turned out to have no security implication afterwards.

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the second regular update.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the second regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

New features introduced in this update include: - Audit support - systemtap - kprobes, relayfs - Keyring support - iSCSI Initiator - iscsi_sfnet 4:0.1.11-1 - Device mapper multipath support - Intel dual core support - esb2 chipset support - Increased exec-shield coverage - Dirty page tracking for HA systems - Diskdump -- allow partial diskdumps and directing to swap

There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The following security bugs were fixed in this update, detailed below with corresponding CAN names available from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) :

  - flaws in ptrace() syscall handling on 64-bit systems     that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service     (crash) (CVE-2005-0756, CVE-2005-1761, CVE-2005-1762,     CVE-2005-1763)

  - flaws in IPSEC network handling that allowed a local     user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain     privileges (CVE-2005-2456, CVE-2005-2555)

  - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling on 64-bit systems     that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service     or potentially gain privileges (CVE-2005-2490)

  - a flaw in sendmsg() syscall handling that allowed a     local user to cause a denial of service by altering     hardware state (CVE-2005-2492)

  - a flaw that prevented the topdown allocator from     allocating mmap areas all the way down to address zero     (CVE-2005-1265)

  - flaws dealing with keyrings that could cause a local     denial of service (CVE-2005-2098, CVE-2005-2099)

  - a flaw in the 4GB split patch that could allow a local     denial of service (CVE-2005-2100)

  - a xattr sharing bug in the ext2 and ext3 file systems     that could cause default ACLs to disappear     (CVE-2005-2801)

  - a flaw in the ipt_recent module on 64-bit architectures     which could allow a remote denial of service     (CVE-2005-2872)

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions :

qla2100 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2200 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2300 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2322 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla2xxx
--------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 qla6312 --------- 8.00.00b21-k to 8.01.00b5-rh2 megaraid_mbox --- 2.20.4.5 to 2.20.4.6 megaraid_mm
----- 2.20.2.5 to 2.20.2.6 lpfc ------------ 0:8.0.16.6_x2 to 0:8.0.16.17 cciss ----------- 2.6.4 to 2.6.6 ipw2100 --------- 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 tg3 ------------- 3.22-rh to 3.27-rh e100 ------------ 3.3.6-k2-NAPI to 3.4.8-k2-NAPI e1000 ----------- 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI to 6.0.54-k2-NAPI 3c59x ----------- LK1.1.19 mptbase --------- 3.01.16 to 3.02.18 ixgb ------------ 1.0.66 to 1.0.95-k2-NAPI libata ---------- 1.10 to 1.11 sata_via -------- 1.0 to 1.1 sata_ahci ------- 1.00 to 1.01 sata_qstor ------ 0.04 sata_sil -------- 0.8 to 0.9 sata_svw
-------- 1.05 to 1.06 s390: crypto ---- 1.31 to 1.57 s390: zfcp ------ s390: CTC-MPC --- s390: dasd ------- s390: cio ------- s390: qeth
------

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Alexander Nyberg discovered that ptrace() insufficiently validated addresses on the amd64 platform so that it was possible to set an invalid segment base. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. This does not affect the i386 and powerpc platforms in any way. (CAN-2005-0756)

Chris Wright discovered that the mmap() function could create illegal memory maps (using the 'mmap' function) with the start address pointing beyond the end address. A local user could exploit this to crash the kernel or possibly even execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. (CAN-2005-1265).

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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:514 advisory.

  - security flaw (CVE-2005-0756, CVE-2005-1265, CVE-2005-1761, CVE-2005-1762, CVE-2005-1763, CVE-2005-2098,     CVE-2005-2099, CVE-2005-2100, CVE-2005-2456, CVE-2005-2490, CVE-2005-2492, CVE-2005-2555, CVE-2005-2801,     CVE-2005-2872, CVE-2005-3105, CVE-2005-3274, CVE-2005-3275, CVE-2006-5871)

  - Fix ipv6 exthdr bug causing Oops (CVE-2005-4886)

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

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2005-514.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
22788	Debian DSA-922-1 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
21943	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2005:514)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
20529	Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-137-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	low
19989	RHEL 4 : Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 (Important) (RHSA-2005:514)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
801409	CentOS RHSA-2005-514 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high

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