CVE-2008-1367HIGH
Description
gcc 4.3.x does not generate a cld instruction while compiling functions used for string manipulation such as memcpy and memmove on x86 and i386, which can prevent the direction flag (DF) from being reset in violation of ABI conventions and cause data to be copied in the wrong direction during signal handling in the Linux kernel, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for CPU consumption in SBCL.
References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469058
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00428.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00432.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00499.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000023.html
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/207
http://lwn.net/Articles/272048/#Comments
http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=120492000901739&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30110
http://secunia.com/advisories/30116
http://secunia.com/advisories/30818
http://secunia.com/advisories/30850
http://secunia.com/advisories/30890
http://secunia.com/advisories/30962
http://secunia.com/advisories/31246
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0211.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0233.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29084
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2222/references
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437312
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41340
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11108
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67703 | Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0508) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 67683 | Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0233) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 67678 | Oracle Linux 3 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0211) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 60429 | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64 | Nessus | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 60395 | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 | Nessus | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 60393 | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64 | Nessus | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 59128 | SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 5370) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 43681 | CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0233) | Nessus | CentOS Local Security Checks | high |
| 40380 | VMSA-2008-0011 : Updated ESX service console packages for Samba and vmnix | Nessus | VMware ESX Local Security Checks | high |
| 33432 | SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 5375) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 33376 | RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0508) | Nessus | Red Hat Local Security Checks | high |
| 33365 | CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2008:0508) | Nessus | CentOS Local Security Checks | high |
| 33253 | openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-5339) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 33252 | openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-5336) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 32161 | RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0233) | Nessus | Red Hat Local Security Checks | high |
| 32160 | RHEL 3 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0211) | Nessus | Red Hat Local Security Checks | high |
| 32139 | CentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2008:0211) | Nessus | CentOS Local Security Checks | high |
| 801450 | CentOS RHSA-2008-0233 Security Check | Log Correlation Engine | Generic | high |