Untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf_config function in tools/perf/util/config.c in perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted config file in the current working directory.

IPv6 fragment identification value generation could allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing its services. (CVE-2011-2699 , Important)

A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS (Common Internet File System) implementation. A malicious CIFS server could send a specially crafted response to a directory read request that would result in a denial of service or privilege escalation on a system that has a CIFS share mounted. (CVE-2011-3191 , Important)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled fragmented IPv6 UDP datagrams over the bridge with UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) functionality on. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4326 , Important)

The way IPv4 and IPv6 protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs were generated could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to inject packets and possibly hijack connections. Protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs are now more random. (CVE-2011-3188 , Moderate)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) implementation. A local user in the fuse group who has access to mount a FUSE file system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3353 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the b43 driver in the Linux kernel. If a system had an active wireless interface that uses the b43 driver, an attacker able to send a specially crafted frame to that interface could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3359 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way CIFS shares with DFS referrals at their root were handled. An attacker on the local network who is able to deploy a malicious CIFS server could create a CIFS network share that, when mounted, would cause the client system to crash. (CVE-2011-3363 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled VLAN 0 frames with the priority tag set. When using certain network drivers, an attacker on the local network could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593 , Moderate)

A flaw in the way memory containing security-related data was handled in tpm_read() could allow a local, unprivileged user to read the results of a previously run TPM command. (CVE-2011-1162 , Low)

A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT) implementation. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by mounting a disk that contains specially crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1577 , Low)

The I/O statistics from the taskstats subsystem could be read without any restrictions. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to gather confidential information, such as the length of a password used in a process. (CVE-2011-2494 , Low)

It was found that the perf tool, a part of the Linux kernel's Performance Events implementation, could load its configuration file from the current working directory. If a local user with access to the perf tool were tricked into running perf in a directory that contains a specially crafted configuration file, it could cause perf to overwrite arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user.
(CVE-2011-2905 , Low)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1465 advisory.

    - [net] vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Andy Gospodarek) [742849 714936]     {CVE-2011-3593}
    - [kernel] fix taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716847 716848] {CVE-2011-2494}
    - [tpm] Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732632 732633] {CVE-2011-1162}
    - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709]     {CVE-2011-3363}
    - [fs] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709]     {CVE-2011-3363}
    - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723432 723433] {CVE-2011-2699}
    - [netdrv] b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (RuiRui Yang) [738204     738205] {CVE-2011-3359}
    - [fs] fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (RuiRui Yang) [736764 736765] {CVE-2011-3353}
    - [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff Layton) [737482 730354] {CVE-2011-3191}
    - [kernel] perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Jiri Benc) [730203 730204]     {CVE-2011-2905}
    - [fs] corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695981 695982]     {CVE-2011-1577}
    - [net] Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665]     {CVE-2011-3188}
    - [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665] {CVE-2011-3188}

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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - IPv6 fragment identification value generation could     allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's     networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing     its services. (CVE-2011-2699, Important)

  - A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS     (Common Internet File System) implementation. A     malicious CIFS server could send a specially crafted     response to a directory read request that would result     in a denial of service or privilege escalation on a     system that has a CIFS share mounted. (CVE-2011-3191,     Important)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled     fragmented IPv6 UDP datagrams over the bridge with UDP     Fragmentation Offload (UFO) functionality on. A remote     attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-4326, Important)

  - The way IPv4 and IPv6 protocol sequence numbers and     fragment IDs were generated could allow a     man-in-the-middle attacker to inject packets and     possibly hijack connections. Protocol sequence numbers     and fragment IDs are now more random. (CVE-2011-3188,     Moderate)

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's     FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) implementation. A local     user in the fuse group who has access to mount a FUSE     file system could use this flaw to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-3353, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the b43 driver in the Linux kernel.
    If a system had an active wireless interface that uses     the b43 driver, an attacker able to send a specially     crafted frame to that interface could cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-3359, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way CIFS shares with DFS     referrals at their root were handled. An attacker on the     local network who is able to deploy a malicious CIFS     server could create a CIFS network share that, when     mounted, would cause the client system to crash.
    (CVE-2011-3363, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled     VLAN 0 frames with the priority tag set. When using     certain network drivers, an attacker on the local     network could use this flaw to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-3593, Moderate)

  - A flaw in the way memory containing security-related     data was handled in tpm_read() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to read the results of a previously     run TPM command. (CVE-2011-1162, Low)

  - A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's EFI     GUID Partition Table (GPT) implementation. A local     attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of     service by mounting a disk that contains specially     crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1577, Low)

  - The I/O statistics from the taskstats subsystem could be     read without any restrictions. A local, unprivileged     user could use this flaw to gather confidential     information, such as the length of a password used in a     process. (CVE-2011-2494, Low)

  - It was found that the perf tool, a part of the Linux     kernel's Performance Events implementation, could load     its configuration file from the current working     directory. If a local user with access to the perf tool     were tricked into running perf in a directory that     contains a specially crafted configuration file, it     could cause perf to overwrite arbitrary files and     directories accessible to that user. (CVE-2011-2905,     Low)

This update also fixes various bugs.

The following perf tool bugs have been fixed :

  - it was issuing excessive number of gettimeofday calls     creating noise when trying to measure performance.
    (bnc#607339)

  - it would consider a file named 'config' in the     current-working-directory as containing perf     configuration data, this fact could be exploited by a     malicious user. (bnc#711414, CVE-2011-2905)

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2183)

Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2491)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909).

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.

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2183)

It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on '/dev/zero' was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2479)

Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2491)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1465 advisory.

  - kernel: tpm: infoleak (CVE-2011-1162)

  - kernel: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (CVE-2011-1577)

  - kernel: taskstats io infoleak (CVE-2011-2494)

  - kernel: ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (CVE-2011-2699)

  - kernel: perf tools: may parse user-controlled configuration file (CVE-2011-2905)

  - kernel: net: improve sequence number generation (CVE-2011-3188)

  - kernel: cifs: signedness issue in CIFSFindNext() (CVE-2011-3191)

  - kernel: fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (CVE-2011-3353)

  - kernel: b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (CVE-2011-3359)

  - kernel: cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (CVE-2011-3363)

  - kernel: vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (CVE-2011-3593)

  - kernel: wrong headroom check in udp6_ufo_fragment() (CVE-2011-4326)

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

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080)

Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093)

Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478)

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1479)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577)

Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password.
(CVE-2011-1585)

It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767)

It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768)

Ben Greear discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle direct I/O. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel's handling of corrupt LDM partitions. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. (CVE-2011-2182)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on '/dev/zero' was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2479)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484)

It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2011-2492)

Sami Liedes discovered that ext4 did not correctly handle missing root inodes. A local attacker could trigger the mount of a specially crafted filesystem to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2493)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that GFS2 did not correctly check block sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2689)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Qianfeng Zhang discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2942)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yasuaki Ishimatsu discovered a flaw in the kernel's clock implementation. A local unprivileged attacker could exploit this causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3209)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's AppArmor security interface when invalid information was written to it. An unprivileged local user could use this to cause a denial of service on the system.
(CVE-2011-3619)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's /proc/*/*map* interface. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3637)

Scot Doyle discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4087)

A bug was found in the way headroom check was performed in udp6_ufo_fragment() function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-4326)

Ben Hutchings discovered several flaws in the Linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2011-4914).

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.

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-3353)

Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling VLAN 0 frames. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593).

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.

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-3353)

Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling VLAN 0 frames. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593).

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3873)

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2183)

Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2491)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1479)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363).

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.

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

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

  - CVE-2011-1020     Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem     that allows local users to gain access to sensitive     process information after execution of a setuid binary.

  - CVE-2011-1576     Ryan Sweat discovered an issue in the VLAN     implementation. Local users may be able to cause a     kernel memory leak, resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2484     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the number     of exit handlers that a process can register is not     capped, resulting in local denial of service through     resource exhaustion (CPU time and memory).

  - CVE-2011-2491     Vasily Averin discovered an issue with the NFS locking     implementation. A malicious NFS server can cause a     client to hang indefinitely in an unlock call.

  - CVE-2011-2492     Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that     uninitialized struct elements in the Bluetooth subsystem     could lead to a leak of sensitive kernel memory through     leaked stack memory.

  - CVE-2011-2495     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the io file     of a process' proc directory was world-readable,     resulting in local information disclosure of information     such as password lengths.

  - CVE-2011-2496     Robert Swiecki discovered that mremap() could be abused     for local denial of service by triggering a BUG_ON     assert.

  - CVE-2011-2497     Dan Rosenberg discovered an integer underflow in the     Bluetooth subsystem, which could lead to denial of     service or privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2011-2517     It was discovered that the netlink-based wireless     configuration interface performed insufficient length     validation when parsing SSIDs, resulting in buffer     overflows. Local users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability     can cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2525     Ben Pfaff reported an issue in the network scheduling     code. A local user could cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) by sending a specially crafted     netlink message.

  - CVE-2011-2700     Mauro Carvalho Chehab of Red Hat reported a buffer     overflow issue in the driver for the Si4713 FM Radio     Transmitter driver used by N900 devices. Local users     could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service or     potentially gain elevated privileges.

  - CVE-2011-2723     Brent Meshier reported an issue in the GRO (generic     receive offload) implementation. This can be exploited     by remote users to create a denial of service (system     crash) in certain network device configurations.

  - CVE-2011-2905     Christian Ohm discovered that the 'perf' analysis tool     searches for its config files in the current working     directory. This could lead to denial of service or     potential privilege escalation if a user with elevated     privileges is tricked into running 'perf' in a directory     under the control of the attacker.

  - CVE-2011-2909     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that a     programming error in the Comedi driver could lead to the     information disclosure through leaked stack memory.

  - CVE-2011-2918     Vince Weaver discovered that incorrect handling of     software event overflows in the 'perf' analysis tool     could lead to local denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2928     Timo Warns discovered that insufficient validation of Be     filesystem images could lead to local denial of service     if a malformed filesystem image is mounted.

  - CVE-2011-3188     Dan Kaminsky reported a weakness of the sequence number     generation in the TCP protocol implementation. This can     be used by remote attackers to inject packets into an     active session.

  - CVE-2011-3191     Darren Lavender reported an issue in the Common Internet     File System (CIFS). A malicious file server could cause     memory corruption leading to a denial of service.

This update also includes a fix for a regression introduced with the previous security fix for CVE-2011-1768 (Debian bug #633738).

Update to kernel 2.6.35.14 :

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.35/ChangeLog
-2.6.35.14

NOTE: These upstream commits from 2.6.35.14 were already in the previous Fedora 14 kernel 2.6.35.13-92 :

b934c20de1398d4a82d2ecfeb588a214a910f13f 3cd01976e702ccaffb907727caff4f8789353599 9c047157a20521cd525527947b13b950d168d2e6 6b4e81db2552bad04100e7d5ddeed7e848f53b48 3e9d08ec0a68f6faf718d5a7e050fe5ca0ba004f b522f02184b413955f3bc952e3776ce41edc6355 194b3da873fd334ef183806db751473512af29ce a1f74ae82d133ebb2aabb19d181944b4e83e9960 e9cdd343a5e42c43bcda01e609fa23089e026470 14fb57dccb6e1defe9f89a66f548fcb24c374c1d 221d1d797202984cb874e3ed9f1388593d34ee22 a294865978b701e4d0d90135672749531b9a900d

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
69585	Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2011-26)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
68393	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1465)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
61179	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
57127	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : perf (SAT Patch Number 5417)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
56978	Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1285-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
56949	USN-1281-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
56947	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1279-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
56927	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1465)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
56768	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56747	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1253-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56644	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1245-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56643	USN-1244-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
56642	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1243-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
56641	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1242-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
56640	USN-1241-1 : linux-fsl-imx51 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56639	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1240-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56638	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56130	Debian DSA-2303-2 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
55955	Fedora 14 : kernel-2.6.35.14-95.fc14 (2011-11103)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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