Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.

Description of problem: When transmitting L2TP frames, we derive the outgoing interface's UDP checksum hardware assist capabilities from the tunnel dst dev. This can sometimes be NULL, especially when routing protocols are used and routing changes occur. This patch just checks for NULL dst or dev pointers when checking for netdev hardware assist features. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000c IP: [<f89d074c>] pppol2tpxmit+0x341/0x4da [pppol2tp] pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/lo/operstate Modules linked in: pppol2tp pppox pppgeneric slhc ipv6 dummy loop sndhdacodecatihdmi sndhdaintel sndhdacodec snd [...] Code: 8d 45 08 f0 ff 45 08 89 6b 08 c7 43 68 7e fb 9c f8 8a 45 24 83 e0 0c 3c 04 75 09 80 63 64 f3 e9 b4 00 00 00 8b 43 1 EIP: [<f89d074c>] pppol2tpxmit+0x341/0x4da [pppol2tp] SS:ESP 0068:f70a9cac CR2: 000000000000000c

Introduced in ffcebb16 (v2.6.29-rc1~581), fixed in 3feec909 (fixed in v2.6.34-rc2).

Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/ffcebb16 http://git.kernel.org/linus/3feec909

The Live DVD for Edubuntu 9.10, 10.04 LTS, and 10.10 does not correctly regenerate iTALC private keys after installation, which causes each installation to have the same fixed key, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.

Multiple buffer overflows in vorbisdec.c in the Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebM file, related to buffers for (1) the channel floor and (2) the channel residue.

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.1.3 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3, Google Chrome before 6.0.472.53, and webkitgtk before 1.2.6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving element focus.

The implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (aka Bidi algorithm or UBA) in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Google Chrome before 5.0.375.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid SVG document.

Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, when used by an application that calls the pngrgbtogray function but not the pngsetexpand function, allows remote attackers to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted PNG image.

It was found that libpng read uninitialized memory when it encountered a sCAL chunk that is empty, and improperly handles a sCAL chunk that lacks the terminating zero between the two strings that it conveys.

This was fixed in libpng-1.5.4, libpng-1.4.8, libpng-1.2.45, and libpng-1.0.55.

Patch: http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng;a=commitdiff;h=61a2d8a2a7b03023e63eae9a3e64607aaaa6d339

An off by one memory read out of bounds issue exists in WebKit's handling of HTML lists. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or the disclosure of the contents of memory. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking.

References:

Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/showbug.cgi?id=39508 Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59950

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for responsibly reporting this issue.

A use after free issue exists in WebKit's handling of geolocation events. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed through improved handing of geolocation events.

References:

Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/showbug.cgi?id=39388 Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59859

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for responsibly reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Justin Schuh as the original reporter.

Description of problem: CIFS has the ability to chase MS-DFS referrals. In order to do this it has to be able to resolve hostnames into IP addresses. For this, it uses the keys API to upcall to the cifs.upcall userspace helper. It then resolves the name and hands the address back to the kernel.

The dnsresolver upcall currently used by CIFS is susceptible to cache stuffing. It's possible for a malicious user to stuff the keyring with the results of a lookup, and then trick the server into mounting a server of his choosing.

It was found that vsftpd, Very Secure FTP daemon, when the network namespace (CONFIGNETNS) support was activated in the kernel, used to create a new network namespace per connection. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause memory pressure (kernel OOM killer protection mechanism to be activated and potentially terminate vsftpd or arbitrary [vsftpd independent] process, which satisfied the OOM killer process selection algorithm).

References: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629373 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/720095

Public PoC (from [2]): ======================

The test is started in this way:

$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ; do ./feedftp $i >/dev/null & done

What is observed during the test is that /proc/vmallocinfo grows continually with lines like the following being added:

0xffffe8ffff800000-0xffffe8ffffa00000 2097152 pcpugetvmareas+0x0/0x790 vmalloc 0xffffe8ffffa00000-0xffffe8ffffc00000 2097152 pcpugetvmareas+0x0/0x790 vmalloc 0xffffe8ffffc00000-0xffffe8ffffe00000 2097152 pcpugetvmareas+0x0/0x790 vmalloc

vsftpd bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=711134

Proposed patches (but has connection rates problem): http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/88217/

An exploit was posted to full-disclosure labelled "Apache Killer". This script creates a number of threads that use multiple Range headers to exhaust memory on the Apache server.

The ASF httpd development team are working on a fix for this issue: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/401638

The server in ISC DHCP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.2, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R3, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a crafted DHCP packet.

The server in ISC DHCP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.2, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R3, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a crafted BOOTP packet.

dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R1, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message, as demonstrated by a hostname that is provided to dhclient-script.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4484 to the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the server in MySQL 5.0.51a on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data to TCP port 3306, as demonstrated by the vdmysql5 module in VulnDisco Pack Professional 8.11. NOTE: as of 20100106, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, because the VulnDisco Pack author is a reliable researcher, the issue is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

References: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-4-2010-mysql-exploit-demo.html http://intevydis.com/vd-list.shtml http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7900 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37640

More details about the issue may be disclosed in about 2 weeks: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-72010-0day-awareness.html

Description of problem: On a 32-bit machine, info.rulecnt >= 0x40000000 leads to integer overflow and the buffer may be smaller than needed. Since ETHTOOLGRXCLSRLALL is unprivileged, this can presumably be used for at least denial of service.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/164869

Description of problem: CVE-2007-4573 regression

Reintroduced in v2.6.27-rc1 via commit d4d67150.

Upstream commits: http://git.kernel.org/linus/36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de http://git.kernel.org/linus/eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac

References: http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Ben Hawkes for reporting this issue.

Description of problem: 1. CVE-2010-2537 - The BTRFSIOCCLONE and BTRFSIOCCLONERANGE ioctls should check whether the donor file is append-only before writing to it.

2. CVE-2010-2538 - The BTRFSIOCCLONERANGE ioctl appears to have an integer overflow that allows a user to specify an out-of-bounds range to copy from the source file (if off + len wraps around).

Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/2ebc3464781ad24474abcbd2274e6254689853b5

Reference: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/MainPage

The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has support for Btrfs by default.

Description of problem: Reported by Nelson Elhage.

CVE-2010-3848 AFECONET kernel stack overflow CVE-2010-3849 AFECONET saddr->cookie NULL dereferences CVE-2010-3850 AFECONET SIOCSIFADDR ioctl does not check privileges

The two main vulnerabilities lie in the econetsendmsg() function. If CONFIGECONETAUNUDP, the function declares a variable-length array of iovec's on the stack:

static int econetsendmsg(struct kiocb iocb, struct socket sock, struct msghdr msg, sizet len) { ... #ifdef CONFIGECONETAUNUDP ... struct iovec iov[msg->msgiovlen+1]; ... #endif

"msg->msgiovlen" is a user-controlled value <= 1024; 1024 'struct iovec's is enough to overflow the kernel stack and clobber the 'threadinfo' struct on either 32- or 64-bit systems with or without CONFIG4KSTACKS.

The code populates 'iov' with user-controlled values, so this is almost certainly exploitable for privesc.

The second bug is conveniently labeled as such for anyone who cares to look:

/ BUG: saddr may be NULL / eb->cookie = saddr->cookie;

In fact, 'saddr' comes from userspace and may be NULL (if non-NULL, it will have been copied to kernelspace), leading to a NULL-pointer dereference. This saddr->cookie dereference appears twice, once in the "hardware" case and once in the "UDP emulation" case. This is easily exploitable for an oops, but probably not anything more.

The final issue is in the ecdevioctl function. The SIOCSIFADDR ioctl does not check privileges, allowing an unprivileged user to assign econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces. It is possible this is intentional, but AFAIK it would be unusual for SIOCSIFADDR to be unprivileged, so this may be an accident.

Note that it is necessary to use this property in order to make the first two bugs exploitable, since econetsendmsg will return almost immediately if no econet addresses are configured.

Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q4/236

The default configuration of the shellescapecommands directive in conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in Debian GNU/Linux squeeze, Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, and possibly other operating systems lists certain programs, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TeX document.

Software Center in Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04 10.10 does not properly validate server certificates, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

It was found that the different user screens (HTML forms) of the Samba Web Administration Tool suite were missing protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL, which once visited by an authenticated Samba SWAT user could lead to unauthorized commands execution with the privileges of that user (for example shut down or start the samba daemons, add or remove shares, printers, user accounts if the victim authenticated as privileged user to Samba SWAT).

Upstream bug report: [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/showbug.cgi?id=8290 (not public yet)

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Yoshihiro Ishikawa of LAC Co., Ltd. as the original reporter.

The utf8decode function in PHP before 5.3.4 does not properly handle non-shortest form UTF-8 encoding and ill-formed subsequences in UTF-8 data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection protection mechanisms via a crafted string.

A path traversal flaw was found in the way Ark, the tool for managing various archive formats within the KDE environment, processed certain Zip archives. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted Zip archive, which once opened in the Ark GUI frontend would lead to arbitrary file being opened or, potentially, if the local victim provided correct user credentials could allow that file to be removed.

References: [1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/25/9 [2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/showbug.cgi?id=708268

A number of vulnerabilities were found and reported by CERT in JasPer which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Reference: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887409

Double free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple iOS before 4.1 on the iPhone and iPod touch allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors related to the rendering of an inline element.

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple iOS before 4.1 on the iPhone and iPod touch, and webkitgtk before 1.2.6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving scrollbars.