VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1 and ESX 4.0 and 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by intercepting and modifying Network File Copy (NFC) traffic.

The extension parser in slpv2message.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1, and other versions before SVN revision 1647, as used in Service Location Protocol daemon (SLPD) in VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 and ESXi 4.0 and 4.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a packet with a "next extension offset" that references this extension or a previous extension. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description of problem: The XFSIOCFSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 12 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the fsxattr struct declared on the stack in xfsiocfsgetxattr() does not alter (or zero) the 12-byte fsxpad member before copying it back to the user.

http://www.linux.sgi.com/archives/xfs-masters/2010-09/msg00002.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.

Description of problem: We leak at least 32bits of kernel memory to user land in tc dump, because we dont init all fields (capab ?) of the dumped structure.

Use C99 initializers so that holes and non explicit fields are zeroed.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/61857/