Description of problem: Structure sockaddrtipc is copied to userland with padding bytes after "id" field in union field "name" unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to initialize them to zero.
Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507420917&w=2 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q4/94
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.
Description of problem: Sometimes ax25getname() doesn't initialize all members of fsadigipeater field of fsa struct. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to initialize them to zero.
Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507120898&w=2 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q4/94
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.
Description of problem: packetgetnamespkt() doesn't initialize all members of sadata field of sockaddr struct if strlen(dev->name) < 13. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to fully fill sadata with strncpy() instead of strlcpy().
The same with packetgetname(): it doesn't initialize sllpkttype field of sockaddrll. Set it to zero.
Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507220908&w=2 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q4/94
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Description of problem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/11/168 The EQLGETMASTRCFG device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 16 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "mastername" member of the masterconfigt struct declared on the stack in eqlgmastercfg() is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Description of problem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/11/170 The CHELSIOGETQSETNUM device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 4 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "addr" member of the chreg struct declared on the stack in cxgbextensionioctl() is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Description of problem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/11/167
The TIOCGICOUNT device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 9 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "reserved" member of the serialicounterstruct struct declared on the stack in hsogetcount() is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user. This patch takes care of it.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Description of problem: User "foo" can use the SWAPEXT ioctl to swap a write-only file owned by user "bar" into a file owned by "foo" and subsequently reading it. It does so by checking that the file descriptors passed to the ioctl are also opened for reading.
References: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.130710.301704aa.en.html http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.135735.40f53a32.en.html
QEMU 0.9.0 does not properly handle changes to removable media, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS by using the diskformat: parameter in the -usbdevice option to modify the disk-image header to identify a different format, a related issue to CVE-2008-2004.
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in httpd's modproxyftp module. Malicious FTP server can use this flaw to crash httpd's child process via malformed reply to EPSV FTP command.
Problem was confirmed in both 2.0.x and 2.2.x httpd versions.
References: http://www.intevydis.com/blog/?p=59 http://secunia.com/advisories/36549/
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chgpasswd function in web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).