Description of problem: On parsing malformed X.25 facilities, decrementing the remaining length may cause it to underflow. Since the length is an unsigned integer, this will result in the loop continuing until the kernel crashes.
This patch adds checks to ensure decrementing the remaining length does not cause it to wrap around.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128951543005554&w=2
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Statement:
This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include support for CCITT X.25 Packet Layer.
Array index error in the gdthreadevent function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via a negative event index in an IOCTL request.
Quoting from the upstream commit: Almost all r128's private ioctls require that the CCE state has already been initialised. However, most do not test that this has been done, and will proceed to dereference a null pointer. This may result in a security vulnerability, since some ioctls are unprivileged.
This adds a macro for the common initialisation test and changes all ioctl implementations that require prior initialisation to use that macro.
Also, r128doinitcce() does not test that the CCE state has not been initialised already. Repeated initialisation may lead to a crash or resource leak. This adds that test.
http://git.kernel.org/linus/7dc482dfeeeefcfd000d4271c4626937406756d7
Other references: http://secunia.com/advisories/36707/
The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file.
Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via IP-DDP datagrams.