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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2010.0537 Important: kernel security and bug fix update 16 June 2010 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: kernel Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4 Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Denial of Service -- Existing Account Increased Privileges -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2010-1437 CVE-2010-1173 CVE-2009-3726 Reference: ESB-2010.0470 Original Bulletin: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0474.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0474-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0474.html Issue date: 2010-06-15 CVE Names: CVE-2009-3726 CVE-2010-1173 CVE-2010-1437 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 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. 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. Security fixes: * a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with an NFSv4 share mounted could possibly use this flaw to cause a kernel panic (denial of service) or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2009-3726, Important) * a flaw was found in the sctp_process_unk_param() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted SCTP packet to an SCTP listening port on a target system, causing a kernel panic (denial of service). (CVE-2010-1173, Important) * a race condition between finding a keyring by name and destroying a freed keyring was found in the Linux kernel key management facility. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic (denial of service) or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-1437, Important) Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vallet for responsibly reporting CVE-2009-3726; and Jukka Taimisto and Olli Jarva of Codenomicon Ltd, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Wind River on behalf of their customer, for responsibly reporting CVE-2010-1173. Bug fixes: * RHBA-2007:0791 introduced a regression in the Journaling Block Device (JBD). Under certain circumstances, removing a large file (such as 300 MB or more) did not result in inactive memory being freed, leading to the system having a large amount of inactive memory. Now, the memory is correctly freed. (BZ#589155) * the timer_interrupt() routine did not scale lost real ticks to logical ticks correctly, possibly causing time drift for 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) guests that were booted with the "divider=x" kernel parameter set to a value greater than 1. "warning: many lost ticks" messages may have been logged on the affected guest systems. (BZ#590551) * a bug could have prevented NFSv3 clients from having the most up-to-date file attributes for files on a given NFSv3 file system. In cases where a file type changed, such as if a file was removed and replaced with a directory of the same name, the NFSv3 client may not have noticed this change until stat(2) was called (for example, by running "ls -l"). (BZ#596372) * RHBA-2007:0791 introduced bugs in the Linux kernel PCI-X subsystem. These could have caused a system deadlock on some systems where the BIOS set the default Maximum Memory Read Byte Count (MMRBC) to 4096, and that also use the Intel PRO/1000 Linux driver, e1000. Errors such as "e1000: eth[x]: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang" were logged. (BZ#596374) * an out of memory condition in a KVM guest, using the virtio-net network driver and also under heavy network stress, could have resulted in that guest being unable to receive network traffic. Users had to manually remove and re-add the virtio_net module and restart the network service before networking worked as expected. Such memory conditions no longer prevent KVM guests receiving network traffic. (BZ#597310) * when an SFQ qdisc that limited the queue size to two packets was added to a network interface, sending traffic through that interface resulted in a kernel crash. Such a qdisc no longer results in a kernel crash. (BZ#597312) * when an NFS client opened a file with the O_TRUNC flag set, it received a valid stateid, but did not use that stateid to perform the SETATTR call. Such cases were rejected by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 NFS servers with an "NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID" error, possibly preventing some NFS clients from writing files to an NFS file system. (BZ#597314) Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259 To install kernel packages manually, use "rpm -ivh [package]". Do not use "rpm -Uvh" as that will remove the running kernel binaries from your system. You may use "rpm -e" to remove old kernels after determining that the new kernel functions properly on your system. 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 529227 - CVE-2009-3726 kernel: nfsv4: kernel panic in nfs4_proc_lock() 584645 - CVE-2010-1173 kernel: sctp: crash due to malformed SCTPChunkInit packet 585094 - CVE-2010-1437 kernel: keyrings: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyring 589155 - jbd not releasing data buffers, causing high inactive meory in RHEL4.6 /proc/meminfo [rhel-4.8.z] 590551 - time drift due to incorrect accounting of lost ticks with VXTIME_PMTMR mode and VXTIME_TSC mode if 'tick_divider' > 1 [rhel-4.8.z] 596372 - NFSv3 file attributes are not updated by READDIRPLUS reply [rhel-4.8.z] 596374 - e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang [rhel-4.8.z] 597310 - Lost the network in a KVM VM on top of 4.9 [rhel-4.8.z] 597312 - SFQ qdisc crashes with limit of 2 packets [rhel-4.8.z] 597314 - cthon test5 failing on nfsv4 with rhel6 client vs. rhel4 server [rhel-4.8.z] 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.noarch.rpm ppc: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ppc64.rpm s390: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390.rpm s390x: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390x.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.s390x.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4Desktop/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.i686.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.ia64.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.x86_64.rpm 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