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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0471 -- [Linux][RedHat] Important: kernel security and bug fix update 8 May 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: kernel Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Linux 4 Linux variants Impact: Root Compromise Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Denial of Service Increased Privileges Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2008-1669 CVE-2008-1615 CVE-2008-1375 CVE-2008-0007 CVE-2007-6282 CVE-2005-0504 Ref: ESB-2008.0451 AA-2008.0048 Original Bulletin: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0237.html Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that also affect distributions other than Red Hat. It is recommended that administrators running Linux check for an updated version of the kernel for their system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0237-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0237.html Issue date: 2008-05-07 CVE Names: CVE-2005-0504 CVE-2007-6282 CVE-2008-0007 CVE-2008-1375 CVE-2008-1615 CVE-2008-1669 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, noarch, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, noarch, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. These updated packages fix the following security issues: * the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code has been found in the Linux kernel open file descriptors control mechanism, fcntl. This could allow a local unprivileged user to simultaneously execute code, which would otherwise be protected against parallel execution. As well, a race condition when handling locks in the Linux kernel fcntl functionality, may have allowed a process belonging to a local unprivileged user to gain re-ordered access to the descriptor table. (CVE-2008-1669, Important) * on AMD64 architectures, the possibility of a kernel crash was discovered by testing the Linux kernel process-trace ability. This could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (kernel crash). (CVE-2008-1615, Important) * the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code, as well as a race condition, have been found in the Linux kernel file system event notifier, dnotify. This could allow a local unprivileged user to get inconsistent data, or to send arbitrary signals to arbitrary system processes. (CVE-2008-1375, Important) Red Hat would like to thank Nick Piggin for responsibly disclosing the following issue: * when accessing kernel memory locations, certain Linux kernel drivers registering a fault handler did not perform required range checks. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to gain read or write access to arbitrary kernel memory, or possibly cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2008-0007, Important) * the possibility of a kernel crash was found in the Linux kernel IPsec protocol implementation, due to improper handling of fragmented ESP packets. When an attacker controlling an intermediate router fragmented these packets into very small pieces, it would cause a kernel crash on the receiving node during packet reassembly. (CVE-2007-6282, Important) * a flaw in the MOXA serial driver could allow a local unprivileged user to perform privileged operations, such as replacing firmware. (CVE-2005-0504, Important) As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs: * multiple buffer overflows in the neofb driver have been resolved. It was not possible for an unprivileged user to exploit these issues, and as such, they have not been handled as security issues. * a kernel panic, due to inconsistent detection of AGP aperture size, has been resolved. * a race condition in UNIX domain sockets may have caused "recv()" to return zero. In clustered configurations, this may have caused unexpected failovers. * to prevent link storms, network link carrier events were delayed by up to one second, causing unnecessary packet loss. Now, link carrier events are scheduled immediately. * a client-side race on blocking locks caused large time delays on NFS file systems. * in certain situations, the libATA sata_nv driver may have sent commands with duplicate tags, which were rejected by SATA devices. This may have caused infinite reboots. * running the "service network restart" command may have caused networking to fail. * a bug in NFS caused cached information about directories to be stored for too long, causing wrong attributes to be read. * on systems with a large highmem/lowmem ratio, NFS write performance may have been very slow when using small files. * a bug, which caused network hangs when the system clock was wrapped around zero, has been resolved. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 404291 - CVE-2007-6282 IPSec ESP kernel panics 423111 - CVE-2005-0504 Buffer overflow in moxa driver 428961 - CVE-2008-0007 kernel: insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap 431430 - CVE-2008-1615 kernel: ptrace: Unprivileged crash on x86_64 %cs corruption 435122 - [RHEL4.6] In unix domain sockets, recv() may incorrectly return zero 436102 - Fake ARP dropped after migration leading to loss of network connectivity 436129 - LTC41942-30 second flock() calls against files stored on a NetApp while using NFS 436499 - libata: sata_nv may send commands with duplicate tags 436749 - HP-Japan Network stack hang after service network restart 437788 - NFS: Fix directory caching problem - with test case and patch. 438345 - [2.6.9-55.9] VM pagecache reclaim patch causes high latency on systems with large highmem/lowmem ratios 438477 - Since "Patch2037: linux-2.6.9-vm-balance.patch" my NFS performance is poorly 439754 - CVE-2008-1375 kernel: race condition in dnotify (local DoS, local roothole possible) 443433 - CVE-2008-1669 kernel: add rcu_read_lock() to fcheck() in both dnotify, locks.c and fix fcntl store/load race in locks.c 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.noarch.rpm ppc: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ppc64.rpm s390: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390.rpm s390x: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390x.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.s390x.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4Desktop/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6282 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0007 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1375 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1615 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1669 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. 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