Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.
(CVE-2010-3865)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3875)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3876)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the TIPC interface did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3877)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the Linux kernel IPv4 implementation did not properly audit certain bytecodes in netlink messages. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the kernel to hang, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880)

It was discovered that multithreaded exec did not handle CPU timers correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4248)

Krishna Gudipati discovered that the bfa adapter driver did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could read files in /sys to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4343)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the install_special_mapping function could bypass the mmap_min_addr restriction. A local attacker could exploit this to mmap 4096 bytes below the mmap_min_addr area, possibly improving the chances of performing NULL pointer dereference attacks.
(CVE-2010-4346)

It was discovered that the ICMP stack did not correctly handle certain unreachable messages. If a remote attacker were able to acquire a socket lock, they could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4526)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4527)

An error was reported in the kernel's ORiNOCO wireless driver's handling of TKIP countermeasures. This reduces the amount of time an attacker needs breach a wireless network using WPA+TKIP for security.
(CVE-2010-4648)

Dan Carpenter discovered that the Infiniband driver did not correctly handle certain requests. A local user could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044)

An error was discovered in the kernel's handling of CUSE (Character device in Userspace). A local attacker might exploit this flaw to escalate privilege, if access to /dev/cuse has been modified to allow non-root users. (CVE-2010-4650)

A flaw was found in the kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). Changes made by an attacker might not be discovered by IMA, if SELinux was disabled, and a new IMA rule was loaded. (CVE-2011-0006).

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.

Security fixes :

  - An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649,     Important)

  - An integer signedness flaw in drm_modeset_ctl() could     allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1013,     Important)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel were missing     sanity checks for the Anti Aliasing (AA) resolve     register values which could allow a local, unprivileged     user to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges on systems using a graphics card from the ATI     Radeon R300, R400, or R500 family of cards.
    (CVE-2011-1016, Important)

  - A flaw in dccp_rcv_state_process() could allow a remote     attacker to cause a denial of service, even when the     socket was already closed. (CVE-2011-1093, Important)

  - A flaw in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission     Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote     attacker to cause a denial of service if the sysctl     'net.sctp.addip_enable' and 'auth_enable' variables were     turned on (they are off by default). (CVE-2011-1573,     Important)

  - A memory leak in the inotify_init() system call. In some     cases, it could leak a group, which could allow a local,     unprivileged user to eventually cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2010-4250, Moderate)

  - A missing validation of a null-terminated string data     structure element in bnep_sock_ioctl() could allow a     local user to cause an information leak or a denial of     service. (CVE-2011-1079, Moderate)

  - An information leak in bcm_connect() in the Controller     Area Network (CAN) Broadcast Manager implementation     could allow a local, unprivileged user to leak kernel     mode addresses in '/proc/net/can-bcm'. (CVE-2010-4565,     Low)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Integrity     Measurement Architecture (IMA) implementation. When     SELinux was disabled, adding an IMA rule which was     supposed to be processed by SELinux would cause     ima_match_rules() to always succeed, ignoring any     remaining rules. (CVE-2011-0006, Low)

  - A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system     implementation could lead to an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

  - Buffer overflow flaws in snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init() and     snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init() could allow a local,     unprivileged user with access to a Native Instruments     USB audio device to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-0712, Low)

  - The start_code and end_code values in '/proc/[pid]/stat'     were not protected. In certain scenarios, this flaw     could be used to defeat Address Space Layout     Randomization (ASLR). (CVE-2011-0726, Low)

  - A flaw in dev_load() could allow a local user who has     the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to load arbitrary modules     from '/lib/modules/', instead of only netdev modules.
    (CVE-2011-1019, Low)

  - A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to cause an information leak.
    (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

  - A missing validation of a null-terminated string data     structure element in do_replace() could allow a local     user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to cause an     information leak. (CVE-2011-1080, Low)

This update also fixes various bugs.

This update also adds an enhancement.

  - This update provides VLAN null tagging support (VLAN ID     0 can be used in tags).

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2015 advisory.

  - The bcm_connect function in net/can/bcm.c (aka the Broadcast Manager) in the Controller Area Network (CAN)     implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.36 and earlier creates a publicly accessible file with a filename     containing a kernel memory address, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information     about kernel memory use by listing this filename. (CVE-2010-4565)

  - Integer overflow in the ib_uverbs_poll_cq function in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c in the Linux     kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a large value of a certain structure member. (CVE-2010-4649)

  - The ima_lsm_rule_init function in security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37,     when the Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework is disabled, allows local users to bypass Integrity     Measurement Architecture (IMA) rules in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an administrator's     addition of an IMA rule for LSM. (CVE-2011-0006)

  - The xfs_fs_geometry function in fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not     initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl call. (CVE-2011-0711)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel     before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a long USB device name, related to (1) the snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function     in sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c.
    (CVE-2011-0712)

  - The do_task_stat function in fs/proc/array.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not perform an     expected uid check, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by     reading the start_code and end_code fields in the /proc/#####/stat file for a process executing a PIE     binary. (CVE-2011-0726)

  - Integer signedness error in the drm_modeset_ctl function in (1) drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c in the Direct     Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_irq.c in     the kernel in OpenBSD before 4.9 allows local users to trigger out-of-bounds write operations, and     consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a     crafted num_crtcs (aka vb_num) structure member in an ioctl argument. (CVE-2011-1013)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc5 do not properly validate data related to the     AA resolve registers, which allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations associated with (1)     Video RAM (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT) via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - The dev_load function in net/core/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows local users to bypass an     intended CAP_SYS_MODULE capability requirement and load arbitrary modules by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability. (CVE-2011-1019)

  - The ib_uverbs_poll_cq function in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37     does not initialize a certain response buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel memory via vectors that cause this buffer to be only partially filled, a different     vulnerability than CVE-2010-4649. (CVE-2011-1044)

  - The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not     ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system     crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command. (CVE-2011-1079)

  - The do_replace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not     ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to     replace a table, and then reading a modprobe command line. (CVE-2011-1080)

  - The dccp_rcv_state_process function in net/dccp/input.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)     implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle packets for a CLOSED endpoint,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) by sending     a DCCP-Close packet followed by a DCCP-Reset packet. (CVE-2011-1093)

  - net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34, when addip_enable and auth_enable are used,     does not consider the amount of zero padding during calculation of chunk lengths for (1) INIT and (2) INIT     ACK chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted packet data.
    (CVE-2011-1573)

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

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1927)

Vegard Nossum discovered a leak in the kernel's inotify_init() system call. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4250)

An error was discovered in the kernel's handling of CUSE (Character device in Userspace). A local attacker might exploit this flaw to escalate privilege, if access to /dev/cuse has been modified to allow non-root users. (CVE-2010-4650)

A flaw was found in the kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). Changes made by an attacker might not be discovered by IMA, if SELinux was disabled, and a new IMA rule was loaded. (CVE-2011-0006)

A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) packets. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-0716)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the OSS (Open Sound System) MIDI interface. A local attacker on non-x86 systems might be able to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1476)

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the kernel's OSS (Open Sound System) driver for Yamaha FM synthesizer chips. A local user can exploit this to cause memory corruption, causing a denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

Dan Rosenberg reported an error in the old ABI compatibility layer of ARM kernels. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1759)

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)

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)

It was discovered that some import kernel threads can be blocked by a user level process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4621)

A flaw was discovered in the XFS filesystem. If a local user mounts a specially crafted XFS image it could potential execute arbitrary code on the system. (CVE-2012-0038)

Chen Haogang discovered an integer overflow that could result in memory corruption. A local unprivileged user could use this to crash the system. (CVE-2012-0044)

Stable update 2.6.34.8, extra bug fixes, some basic hardware backports for Intel Sandy Bridge upon request. Update to kernel 2.6.34.8:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.34/ChangeLog
-2.6.34.8

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 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)

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)

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)

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 Jacobson discovered that ThinkPad video output was not correctly access controlled. A local attacker could exploit this to hang the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3448)

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3698)

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)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.
(CVE-2010-3865)

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)

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)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3875)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3876)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the TIPC interface did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3877)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the Linux kernel IPv4 implementation did not properly audit certain bytecodes in netlink messages. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the kernel to hang, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that kvm did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3881)

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 multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4075)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ivtv V4L driver did not correctly initialize certian structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4079)

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)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the semctl syscall did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4083)

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 that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validate iov segments. A local attacker with access to a SCSI device could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4163, CVE-2010-4668)

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)

It was discovered that multithreaded exec did not handle CPU timers correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4248)

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)

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)

Krishna Gudipati discovered that the bfa adapter driver did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could read files in /sys to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4343)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the install_special_mapping function could bypass the mmap_min_addr restriction. A local attacker could exploit this to mmap 4096 bytes below the mmap_min_addr area, possibly improving the chances of performing NULL pointer dereference attacks.
(CVE-2010-4346)

It was discovered that the ICMP stack did not correctly handle certain unreachable messages. If a remote attacker were able to acquire a socket lock, they could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4526)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4527)

An error was reported in the kernel's ORiNOCO wireless driver's handling of TKIP countermeasures. This reduces the amount of time an attacker needs breach a wireless network using WPA+TKIP for security.
(CVE-2010-4648)

Dan Carpenter discovered that the Infiniband driver did not correctly handle certain requests. A local user could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044)

An error was discovered in the kernel's handling of CUSE (Character device in Userspace). A local attacker might exploit this flaw to escalate privilege, if access to /dev/cuse has been modified to allow non-root users. (CVE-2010-4650)

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)

Kees Cook discovered that the IOWarrior USB device driver did not correctly check certain size fields. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4656)

Joel Becker discovered that OCFS2 did not correctly validate on-disk symlink structures. If an attacker were able to trick a user or automated system into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, it could crash the system or expose kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-NNN2)

A flaw was found in the kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). Changes made by an attacker might not be discovered by IMA, if SELinux was disabled, and a new IMA rule was loaded. (CVE-2011-0006)

Dan Carpenter discovered that the TTPCI DVB driver did not check certain values during an ioctl. If the dvb-ttpci module was loaded, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0521)

Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that the caiaq Native Instruments USB driver did not correctly validate string lengths. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-0712)

Timo Warns discovered that MAC partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1010)

Timo Warns discovered that LDM partition parsing routines did not correctly calculate block counts. 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-2011-1012)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the epoll subsystem did not correctly handle certain structures. A local attacker could create malicious requests that would hang the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1082)

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).

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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

Security fixes :

* An integer overflow flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, Important)

* An integer signedness flaw in drm_modeset_ctl() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1013, Important)

* The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel were missing sanity checks for the Anti Aliasing (AA) resolve register values which could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges on systems using a graphics card from the ATI Radeon R300, R400, or R500 family of cards. (CVE-2011-1016, Important)

* A flaw in dccp_rcv_state_process() could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, even when the socket was already closed.
(CVE-2011-1093, Important)

* A flaw in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service if the sysctl 'net.sctp.addip_enable' and 'auth_enable' variables were turned on (they are off by default). (CVE-2011-1573, Important)

* A memory leak in the inotify_init() system call. In some cases, it could leak a group, which could allow a local, unprivileged user to eventually cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4250, Moderate)

* A missing validation of a null-terminated string data structure element in bnep_sock_ioctl() could allow a local user to cause an information leak or a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1079, Moderate)

* An information leak in bcm_connect() in the Controller Area Network (CAN) Broadcast Manager implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to leak kernel mode addresses in '/proc/net/can-bcm'. (CVE-2010-4565, Low)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) implementation. When SELinux was disabled, adding an IMA rule which was supposed to be processed by SELinux would cause ima_match_rules() to always succeed, ignoring any remaining rules.
(CVE-2011-0006, Low)

* A missing initialization flaw in the XFS file system implementation could lead to an information leak. (CVE-2011-0711, Low)

* Buffer overflow flaws in snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init() and snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init() could allow a local, unprivileged user with access to a Native Instruments USB audio device to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-0712, Low)

* The start_code and end_code values in '/proc/[pid]/stat' were not protected. In certain scenarios, this flaw could be used to defeat Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). (CVE-2011-0726, Low)

* A flaw in dev_load() could allow a local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to load arbitrary modules from '/lib/modules/', instead of only netdev modules. (CVE-2011-1019, Low)

* A flaw in ib_uverbs_poll_cq() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1044, Low)

* A missing validation of a null-terminated string data structure element in do_replace() could allow a local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1080, Low)

Red Hat would like to thank Vegard Nossum for reporting CVE-2010-4250;
Vasiliy Kulikov for reporting CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-1019, and CVE-2011-1080; Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2010-4565 and CVE-2011-0711; Rafael Dominguez Vega for reporting CVE-2011-0712; and Kees Cook for reporting CVE-2011-0726.

This update also fixes various bugs and adds an enhancement.
Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues, and fix the bugs and add the enhancement noted in the Technical Notes. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0498 advisory.

  - Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before     2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed     attempts to create files. (CVE-2010-4250)

  - The bcm_connect function in net/can/bcm.c (aka the Broadcast Manager) in the Controller Area Network (CAN)     implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.36 and earlier creates a publicly accessible file with a filename     containing a kernel memory address, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information     about kernel memory use by listing this filename. (CVE-2010-4565)

  - Integer overflow in the ib_uverbs_poll_cq function in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c in the Linux     kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a large value of a certain structure member. (CVE-2010-4649)

  - The ima_lsm_rule_init function in security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37,     when the Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework is disabled, allows local users to bypass Integrity     Measurement Architecture (IMA) rules in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an administrator's     addition of an IMA rule for LSM. (CVE-2011-0006)

  - The xfs_fs_geometry function in fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not     initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl call. (CVE-2011-0711)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel     before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a long USB device name, related to (1) the snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function     in sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c.
    (CVE-2011-0712)

  - The do_task_stat function in fs/proc/array.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not perform an     expected uid check, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by     reading the start_code and end_code fields in the /proc/#####/stat file for a process executing a PIE     binary. (CVE-2011-0726)

  - Integer signedness error in the drm_modeset_ctl function in (1) drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c in the Direct     Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_irq.c in     the kernel in OpenBSD before 4.9 allows local users to trigger out-of-bounds write operations, and     consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a     crafted num_crtcs (aka vb_num) structure member in an ioctl argument. (CVE-2011-1013)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc5 do not properly validate data related to the     AA resolve registers, which allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations associated with (1)     Video RAM (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT) via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - The dev_load function in net/core/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows local users to bypass an     intended CAP_SYS_MODULE capability requirement and load arbitrary modules by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability. (CVE-2011-1019)

  - The ib_uverbs_poll_cq function in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37     does not initialize a certain response buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel memory via vectors that cause this buffer to be only partially filled, a different     vulnerability than CVE-2010-4649. (CVE-2011-1044)

  - The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not     ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system     crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command. (CVE-2011-1079)

  - The do_replace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not     ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to     replace a table, and then reading a modprobe command line. (CVE-2011-1080)

  - The dccp_rcv_state_process function in net/dccp/input.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)     implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle packets for a CLOSED endpoint,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) by sending     a DCCP-Close packet followed by a DCCP-Reset packet. (CVE-2011-1093)

  - net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34, when addip_enable and auth_enable are used,     does not consider the amount of zero padding during calculation of chunk lengths for (1) INIT and (2) INIT     ACK chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted packet data.
    (CVE-2011-1573)

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

Update to kernel 2.6.35.11:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.35/ChangeLog
-2.6.35.11

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.

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3698)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.
(CVE-2010-3865)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3875)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3876)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the TIPC interface did not correctly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3877)

Nelson Elhage discovered that the Linux kernel IPv4 implementation did not properly audit certain bytecodes in netlink messages. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the kernel to hang, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3880)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ivtv V4L driver did not correctly initialize certian structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4079)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the semctl syscall did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-4083)

It was discovered that multithreaded exec did not handle CPU timers correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4248)

Vegard Nossum discovered a leak in the kernel's inotify_init() system call. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4250)

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4342)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the install_special_mapping function could bypass the mmap_min_addr restriction. A local attacker could exploit this to mmap 4096 bytes below the mmap_min_addr area, possibly improving the chances of performing NULL pointer dereference attacks.
(CVE-2010-4346)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4527)

An error was reported in the kernel's ORiNOCO wireless driver's handling of TKIP countermeasures. This reduces the amount of time an attacker needs breach a wireless network using WPA+TKIP for security.
(CVE-2010-4648)

Dan Carpenter discovered that the Infiniband driver did not correctly handle certain requests. A local user could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044)

An error was discovered in the kernel's handling of CUSE (Character device in Userspace). A local attacker might exploit this flaw to escalate privilege, if access to /dev/cuse has been modified to allow non-root users. (CVE-2010-4650)

A flaw was found in the kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). Changes made by an attacker might not be discovered by IMA, if SELinux was disabled, and a new IMA rule was loaded. (CVE-2011-0006)

It was discovered that some import kernel threads can be blocked by a user level process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4621).

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 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.29 and fixes various bugs and security issues.

  - The ax25_getname function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the     Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure,     which allowed local users to obtain potentially     sensitive information from kernel stack memory by     reading a copy of this structure. (CVE-2010-3875)

  - net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly initialize certain structure members, which     allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the     CAP_NET_RAW capability to read copies of the applicable     structures. (CVE-2010-3876)

  - The get_name function in net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux     kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which     allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy     of this structure. (CVE-2010-3877)

  - The sctp_auth_asoc_get_hmac function in net/sctp/auth.c     in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the     hmac_ids array of an SCTP peer, which allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption and panic) via a crafted value in the last     element of this array. (CVE-2010-3705)

  - A stack memory information leak in the xfs FSGEOMETRY_V1     ioctl was fixed. (CVE-2011-0711)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native     Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel     might have allowed attackers to cause a denial of     service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     long USB device name, related to (1) the     snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function in     sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the     snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in     sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c. (CVE-2011-0712)

  - The task_show_regs function in arch/s390/kernel/traps.c     in the Linux kernel on the s390 platform allowed local     users to obtain the values of the registers of an     arbitrary process by reading a status file under /proc/.
    (CVE-2011-0710)

  - The xfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not look     up inode allocation btrees before reading inode buffers,     which allowed remote authenticated users to read     unlinked files, or read or overwrite disk blocks that     are currently assigned to an active file but were     previously assigned to an unlinked file, by accessing a     stale NFS filehandle. (CVE-2010-2943)

  - The uart_get_count function in     drivers/serial/serial_core.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly initialize a certain structure member, which     allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT     ioctl call. (CVE-2010-4075)

  - The rs_ioctl function in drivers/char/amiserial.c in the     Linux kernel did not properly initialize a certain     structure member, which allowed local users to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel stack     memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call. (CVE-2010-4076)

  - The ntty_ioctl_tiocgicount function in     drivers/char/nozomi.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly initialize a certain structure member, which     allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT     ioctl call. (CVE-2010-4077)

  - fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel did not enable the OOM     Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays     representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment,     which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka     an OOM dodging issue, a related issue to CVE-2010-3858.
    (CVE-2010-4243)

  - The blk_rq_map_user_iov function in block/blk-map.c in     the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (panic) via a zero-length I/O request in a     device ioctl to a SCSI device, related to an unaligned     map. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an     incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4163. (CVE-2010-4668)

  - Integer underflow in the irda_getsockopt function in     net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel on platforms     other than x86 allowed local users to obtain potentially     sensitive information from kernel heap memory via an     IRLMP_ENUMDEVICES getsockopt call. (CVE-2010-4529)

  - The aun_incoming function in net/econet/af_econet.c in     the Linux kernel, when Econet is enabled, allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) by sending an Acorn Universal     Networking (AUN) packet over UDP. (CVE-2010-4342)

  - The backend driver in Xen 3.x allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak,     which prevented the device and guest OS from being shut     down or create a zombie domain, causing a hang in     zenwatch, or preventing unspecified xm commands from     working properly, related to (1) netback, (2) blkback,     or (3) blktap. (CVE-2010-3699)

  - The install_special_mapping function in mm/mmap.c in the     Linux kernel did not make an expected security_file_mmap     function call, which allows local users to bypass     intended mmap_min_addr restrictions and possibly conduct     NULL pointer dereference attacks via a crafted     assembly-language application. (CVE-2010-4346)

  - Fixed a verify_ioctl overflow in 'cuse' in the fuse     filesystem. The code should only be called by root users     though. (CVE-2010-4650)

  - Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable     function in net/sctp/input.c in the Linux kernel allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic)     via an ICMP unreachable message to a socket that is     already locked by a user, which causes the socket to be     freed and triggers list corruption, related to the     sctp_wait_for_connect function. (CVE-2010-4526)

  - The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c     in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel     incorrectly expected that a certain name field ends with     a '0' character, which allowed local users to conduct     buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a     SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call. (CVE-2010-4527)

  - Fixed a LSM bug in IMA (Integrity Measuring     Architecture). IMA is not enabled in SUSE kernels, so we     were not affected. (CVE-2011-0006)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
52499	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1080-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/2/2011	9/19/2019	high
61035	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
68416	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2015)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	9/8/2021	high
58289	USN-1394-1 : Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/8/2012	12/1/2016	high
52571	Fedora 13 : kernel-2.6.34.8-68.fc13 (2011-2134)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/8/2011	1/11/2021	medium
65103	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1093-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/8/2013	5/14/2023	high
53867	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0498)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2011	1/14/2021	high
68273	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0498)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	9/8/2021	high
52528	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1080-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/3/2011	9/19/2019	high
51949	Fedora 14 : kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14 (2011-1138)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	2/11/2011	1/11/2021	medium
52500	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1081-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/2/2011	9/19/2019	high
52597	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 4039 / 4042 / 4043)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/9/2011	1/19/2021	high

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