A vulnerability found in the Linux kernel's WMM implementation for Marvell WiFi-based hardware (mwifiex) could lead to a denial of service or allow arbitrary code execution. For this flaw to be executed, the attacker must be both local and privileged. There is no mitigation to this flaw. A patch has been provided to remediate this flaw.
Xen allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized locations in host OS kernel memory by not enabling memory and I/O decoding control bits. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0777.
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in function rdsincinfocopy of file net/rds/recv.c. The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized. Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data. Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.
Upstream bug:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/629110/
Upstream fix:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb
Due to a problem with the patch used to correct a problem with LDAP servers not correctly returning an opaque cookie to check for additional results when getting paged results from a server on 64-bit PowerPC and IBM System z platforms (RHBA-2012:0264), it was possible for a user to cause a denial of service of the autofs service. While this may not impact mounts that have already been mounted (other than preventing mount expiration), it will prevent any future mount requests from being processed until autofs is restarted.
A TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition was found in the way SSSD, System Security Services Daemon, performed copying and removal of (user) directory trees.A local attacker, with permissions to write into directory of the victim, being actively / currently copied / removed via the sssd daemon facility, could use this flaw to conduct symbolic link attacks, leading to their ability to alter / remove directories outside of originally intended, to be modified, directory tree.
This issue was found by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security Team.
It was reported [1] that SSSD improperly expanded group membership when it encountered a non-POSIX group in the group membership chain. For instance:
user -> posixgroup1 -> nonposixgroup -> posixgroup2
With the group memberships noted above, SSSD should include the user as a member of both posixgroup1 and posixgroup2, however due to the position of the non-POSIX group, SSSD halts processing at it and never reaches posixgroup2, leaving the user as a member of posixgroup1 and not posixgroup2.
SSSD has the capability to set a 'deny' ACL for both users and groups, so in a situation like that illustrated above, if posixgroup2 was present in a 'deny' ACL, the user would be granted access because they are not shown as having membership in the denied group. This could grant unintended access to certain users in an environment where non-POSIX groups are used in addition to POSIX groups.
There is currently no patch to correct this issue.
[1] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/sssd-devel/2014-May/019495.html
shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees
A race condition was found in the way Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled breakage of the read only private mappings COW situation on write access.
An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
Red Hat is aware of this issue and if you have questions about the affectedness of your system please contact Red Hat Support. For additional information see https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661
Buffer overflow in client/mysql.cc in Oracle MySQL and MariaDB before 5.5.35 allows remote database servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long server version string.
Luci in Red Hat Conga does not properly enforce the user session timeout, which might allow attackers to gain access to the session by reading the ac session cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2012-3359 for the base64-encoded storage of the user and password in a cookie.
Created attachment 795808 [details] preliminary patch to set credentials before execve
Description of problem:
If a tcpmux service is enabled, the user and group directives are ignored and the service always runs as root. Verified in the xinetd codebase and affects all active versions of RHEL and Fedora. Without the fix for CVE-2012-0862, previously exposed non-tcpmux services could run as root bypassing their respective user and group restrictions.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.3.15-6
How reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enabled tcpmux-server 2. Create a sample tcpmux service
service testcred { id = tcpmux-testcred disable = no user = nobody group = nobody sockettype = stream type = TCPMUXPLUS UNLISTED flags = NAMEINARGS server = /usr/bin/id serverargs = id wait = no }
3. telnet localhost 1 4. type testcred
Actual results: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. testcred +Go uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Expected results: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. testcred +Go uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)
Additional info:
An improper input sanitization flaw was found in the way JBoss Seam web application framework processed certain parametrized JBoss Expression Language expressions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via a URL, containing appended, specially-crafted expression language parameters, provided to certain applications based on the JBoss Seam framework. Note: A properly configured and enabled Java Security Manager would prevent exploitation of this flaw.
References: [1] http://seamframework.org/ [2] http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.2.0.GA/en-US/html/elenhancements.html
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Meder Kydyraliev of Google Security Team for responsibly reporting this issue.
Bodo Möller, Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz of Google discovered a flaw in the design of SSL version 3.0 that would allow an attacker to calculate the plaintext of secure connections, allowing, for example, secure HTTP cookies to be stolen.
References: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf
As per the upstream advisory:
By sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an OpenSSL DTLS client, the code can be made to recurse, eventually crashing in a DoS attack.
Only applications using OpenSSL as a DTLS client are affected.
OpenSSL 0.9.8 DTLS users should upgrade to 0.9.8za OpenSSL 1.0.0 DTLS users should upgrade to 1.0.0m. OpenSSL 1.0.1 DTLS users should upgrade to 1.0.1h. .
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Imre Rad of Search-Lab as the original reporter of this issue.
It was found that OpenSSL was vulnerable to a SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability. An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can decrypt and modify traffic from the attacked client and server.
As per the upstream advisory:
The attack can only be performed between a vulnerable client and server. OpenSSL clients are vulnerable in all versions of OpenSSL. Servers are only known to be vulnerable in OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta1. Users of OpenSSL servers earlier than 1.0.1 are advised to upgrade as a precaution.
OpenSSL 0.9.8 SSL/TLS users (client and/or server) should upgrade to 0.9.8za. OpenSSL 1.0.0 SSL/TLS users (client and/or server) should upgrade to 1.0.0m. OpenSSL 1.0.1 SSL/TLS users (client and/or server) should upgrade to 1.0.1h.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges KIKUCHI Masashi of Lepidum as the original reporter of this issue.
Buffer overflow in hw/scsi-disk.c in the SCSI subsystem in QEMU before 0.15.2, as used by Xen, might allow local guest users with permission to access the CD-ROM to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via a crafted SAI READ CAPACITY SCSI command. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when root has manually modified certain permissions or ACLs.
It was reported that Luci's (Luci is a web based front-end component of the Conga cluster management system) user session timeout feature depended only on JavaScript script running in the user's browser. If user closed browser tab without logging out of Luci session and without closing browser, they could re-open Luci web interface and continue using the session even after the timeout period has elapsed.
References: http://sourceware.org/cluster/conga/
Acknowledgement:
Red Hat would like to thank George Hedfors of Cybercom Sweden East AB for reporting this issue.
As per the upstream advisory:
OpenSSL TLS clients enabling anonymous ECDH ciphersuites are subject to a denial of service attack.
OpenSSL 1.0.0 users should upgrade to 1.0.0m. OpenSSL 1.0.1 users should upgrade to 1.0.1h.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Felix Gröbert and Ivan Fratrić of Google as the original reporters of this issue.
sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.
ibutils packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 are built to use insecure RPATH set in the ELF header of the ibmssh command.
This issue can possibly be exploited by a local attacker to run arbitrary code as some other user if victim user can be convinced to run ibmssh command in an attacker controlled directory with specially crafted content.
Affected binary: /usr/bin/ibmssh RPATH: refix/lib
kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIGAUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a large value of a syscall number.
A certain Red Hat patch for net/ipv4/route.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted packets that force collisions in the IPv4 routing hash table, and trigger a routing "emergency" in which a hash chain is too long. NOTE: this is related to an issue in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31, when the kernel routing cache is disabled, involving an uninitialized pointer and a panic.
Paolo Bonzini found a bug in Xen hypervisor that can be used to crash the guest. Malicious guest userspace process can trick the hypervisor into emulating instruction that causes the crash if it has access to an MMIO region. The bug can be exploited because of an inconsistency between instruction decoding tables and the actual MMIO instruction decoder implementation.
A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when NPort ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vportcreate and (2) vportdelete files under /sys/class/scsihost/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.
It was found that the yum-rhn-plugin caches sensitive authentication information in the world-readable /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file. This information could be used to download packages from Red Hat Network (Hosted or Satellite) or otherwise manipulate the package list associated with the system's profile, which could possibly prevent new errata from being installed.
As per upstream samba advisory:
All versions of Samba from 3.5.0 to 4.2.0rc4 are vulnerable to an unexpected code execution vulnerability in the smbd file server daemon.
A malicious client could send packets that may set up the stack in such a way that the freeing of memory in a subsequent anonymous netlogon packet could allow execution of arbitrary code. This code would execute with root privileges.
Last updated 24 July 2024
A certain Red Hat patch to the brdeliver function in net/bridge/brforward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024