First published: Tue Mar 01 2011(Updated: )
Description of problem: Struct tmp is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether the "name" field is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow and passing contents of kernel stack as a module name to try_then_request_module() and, consequently, to modprobe commandline. It would be seen by all userspace processes. References: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/309">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/309</a> <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/51">https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/51</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc7 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc6 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | <=2.6.38.8 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.6 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38-rc8 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.38.7 | |
debian/linux-2.6 |
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