Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel.
During a core dump, the kernel did not check if the Virtual Dynamically-linked Shared Object page was accessible. On Intel 64 and AMD64 systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic by running a crafted 32-bit application.
(CVE-2009-4271, Important)

* an information leak was found in the print_fatal_signal() implementation in the Linux kernel. When '/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals' is set to 1 (the default value is 0), memory that is reachable by the kernel could be leaked to user-space. This issue could also result in a system crash. Note that this flaw only affected the i386 architecture. (CVE-2010-0003, Moderate)

* on AMD64 systems, it was discovered that the kernel did not ensure the ELF interpreter was available before making a call to the SET_PERSONALITY macro. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by running a 32-bit application that attempts to execute a 64-bit application. (CVE-2010-0307, Moderate)

* missing capability checks were found in the ebtables implementation, used for creating an Ethernet bridge firewall. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to bypass intended capability restrictions and modify ebtables rules. (CVE-2010-0007, Low)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* under some circumstances, a locking bug could have caused an online ext3 file system resize to deadlock, which may have, in turn, caused the file system or the entire system to become unresponsive. In either case, a reboot was required after the deadlock. With this update, using resize2fs to perform an online resize of an ext3 file system works as expected. (BZ#553135)

* some ATA and SCSI devices were not honoring the barrier=1 mount option, which could result in data loss after a crash or power loss.
This update applies a patch to the Linux SCSI driver to ensure ordered write caching. This solution does not provide cache flushes; however, it does provide data integrity on devices that have no write caching (or where write caching is disabled) and no command queuing. For systems that have command queuing or write cache enabled there is no guarantee of data integrity after a crash. (BZ#560563)

* it was found that lpfc_find_target() could loop continuously when scanning a list of nodes due to a missing spinlock. This missing spinlock allowed the list to be changed after the list_empty() test, resulting in a NULL value, causing the loop. This update adds the spinlock, resolving the issue. (BZ#561453)

* the fix for CVE-2009-4538 provided by RHSA-2010:0020 introduced a regression, preventing Wake on LAN (WoL) working for network devices using the Intel PRO/1000 Linux driver, e1000e. Attempting to configure WoL for such devices resulted in the following error, even when configuring valid options :

'Cannot set new wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol'

This update resolves this regression, and WoL now works as expected for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#565496)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs.

The following security issues were fixed :

  - The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in     fs/partitions/ldm.c) contained bugs that could crash the     kernel for certain corrupted LDM partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1017 / CVE-2011-1012)

  - Boundschecking was missing in AARESOLVE_OFFSET, which     allowed local attackers to overwrite kernel memory and     so escalate privileges or crash the kernel.
    (CVE-2011-1573)

  - When using a setuid root mount.cifs, local users could     hijack password protected mounted CIFS shares of other     local users. (CVE-2011-1585)

  - Kernel information via the TPM devices could by used by     local attackers to read kernel memory. (CVE-2011-1160)

  - The Linux kernel automatically evaluated partition     tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating EFI     GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c) contained a bug     that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted GUID     partition tables, which might be used by local attackers     to crash the kernel or potentially execute code.
    (CVE-2011-1577)

  - In the IrDA module, length fields provided by a peer for     names and attributes may be longer than the destination     array sizes and were not checked, this allowed local     attackers (close to the irda port) to potentially     corrupt memory. (CVE-2011-1180)

  - A system out of memory condition (denial of service)     could be triggered with a large socket backlog,     exploitable by local users. This has been addressed by     backlog limiting. (CVE-2010-4251)

  - The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate data related to the AA resolve     registers, which allowed local users to write to     arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM     (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT)     via crafted values. (CVE-2011-1016)

  - When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it     was possible for a remote host to provide more     digipeaters than expected, resulting in heap corruption.
    (CVE-2011-1493)

  - Local attackers could send signals to their programs     that looked like coming from the kernel, potentially     gaining privileges in the context of setuid programs.
    (CVE-2011-1182)

  - The code for evaluating Mac partitions (in     fs/partitions/mac.c) contained a bug that could crash     the kernel for certain corrupted Mac partitions.
    (CVE-2011-1010)

  - The code for evaluating OSF partitions (in     fs/partitions/osf.c) contained a bug that leaks data     from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain     corrupted OSF partitions. (CVE-2011-1163)

  - Specially crafted requests may be written to     /dev/sequencer resulting in an underflow when     calculating a size for a copy_from_user() operation in     the driver for MIDI interfaces. On x86, this just     returns an error, but it could have caused memory     corruption on other architectures. Other malformed     requests could have resulted in the use of uninitialized     variables. (CVE-2011-1476)

  - Due to a failure to validate user-supplied indexes in     the driver for Yamaha YM3812 and OPL-3 chips, a     specially crafted ioctl request could have been sent to     /dev/sequencer, resulting in reading and writing beyond     the bounds of heap buffers, and potentially allowing     privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1477)

  - A information leak in the XFS geometry calls could be     used by local attackers to gain access to kernel     information. (CVE-2011-0191)

  - The sctp_rcv_ootb function in the SCTP implementation in     the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (infinite loop) via (1) an Out Of The     Blue (OOTB) chunk or (2) a chunk of zero length.
    (CVE-2010-0008)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

* a deficiency was found in the fasync_helper() implementation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to leverage a use-after-free of locked, asynchronous file descriptors to cause a denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2009-4141, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the ip6_dst_lookup_tail() function in the Linux kernel. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by sending IPv6 traffic to a target system, leading to a system crash (kernel OOPS) if dst->neighbour is NULL on the target system when receiving an IPv6 packet. (CVE-2010-0437, Important)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* programs compiled on x86, and that also call sched_rr_get_interval(), were silently corrupted when run on 64-bit systems. With this update, when such programs attempt to call sched_rr_get_interval() on 64-bit systems, sys32_sched_rr_get_interval() is called instead, which resolves this issue. (BZ#557683)

* the fix for CVE-2009-4538 provided by RHSA-2010:0053 introduced a regression, preventing Wake on LAN (WoL) working for network devices using the Intel PRO/1000 Linux driver, e1000e. Attempting to configure WoL for such devices resulted in the following error, even when configuring valid options :

'Cannot set new wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol'

This update resolves this regression, and WoL now works as expected for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#559334)

* a number of bugs have been fixed in the copy_user routines for Intel 64 and AMD64 systems, one of which could have possibly led to data corruption. (BZ#568307)

* on some systems, a race condition in the inode-based file event notifications implementation caused soft lockups and the following messages :

'BUG: warning at fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()' 'BUG: soft lockup - CPU#[x] stuck for 10s!'

This update resolves this race condition, and also removes the inotify debugging code from the kernel, due to race conditions in that code.
(BZ#568663)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security fixes :

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

* a missing boundary check was found in the do_move_pages() function in the memory migration functionality in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to cause a local denial of service or an information leak. (CVE-2010-0415, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the ip6_dst_lookup_tail() function in the Linux kernel. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by sending IPv6 traffic to a target system, leading to a system crash (kernel OOPS) if dst->neighbour is NULL on the target system when receiving an IPv6 packet. (CVE-2010-0437, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the ext4 file system code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this flaw to trigger a local denial of service by mounting a specially crafted, journal-less ext4 file system, if that file system forced an EROFS error. (CVE-2009-4308, Moderate)

* an information leak was found in the print_fatal_signal() implementation in the Linux kernel. When '/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals' is set to 1 (the default value is 0), memory that is reachable by the kernel could be leaked to user-space. This issue could also result in a system crash. Note that this flaw only affected the i386 architecture. (CVE-2010-0003, Moderate)

* missing capability checks were found in the ebtables implementation, used for creating an Ethernet bridge firewall. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to bypass intended capability restrictions and modify ebtables rules. (CVE-2010-0007, Low)

Bug fixes :

* a bug prevented Wake on LAN (WoL) being enabled on certain Intel hardware. (BZ#543449)

* a race issue in the Journaling Block Device. (BZ#553132)

* programs compiled on x86, and that also call sched_rr_get_interval(), were silently corrupted when run on 64-bit systems. (BZ#557684)

* the RHSA-2010:0019 update introduced a regression, preventing WoL from working for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#559335)

* adding a bonding interface in mode balance-alb to a bridge was not functional. (BZ#560588)

* some KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) guests experienced slow performance (and possibly a crash) after suspend/resume. (BZ#560640)

* on some systems, VF cannot be enabled in dom0. (BZ#560665)

* on systems with certain network cards, a system crash occurred after enabling GRO. (BZ#561417)

* for x86 KVM guests with pvclock enabled, the boot clocks were registered twice, possibly causing KVM to write data to a random memory area during the guest's life. (BZ#561454)

* serious performance degradation for 32-bit applications, that map (mmap) thousands of small files, when run on a 64-bit system.
(BZ#562746)

* improved kexec/kdump handling. Previously, on some systems under heavy load, kexec/kdump was not functional. (BZ#562772)

* dom0 was unable to boot when using the Xen hypervisor on a system with a large number of logical CPUs. (BZ#562777)

* a fix for a bug that could potentially cause file system corruption.
(BZ#564281)

* a bug caused infrequent cluster issues for users of GFS2.
(BZ#564288)

* gfs2_delete_inode failed on read-only file systems. (BZ#564290)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including remote code execution vulnerabilities, in several third-party components and libraries :

  - Apache Tomcat 
  - Apache Tomcat Manager
  - cURL 
  - Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
  - Kernel 
  - Microsoft SQL Express
  - OpenSSL
  - pam_krb5

USN-947-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Fixes for CVE-2010-0419 caused failures when using KVM in certain situations.
This update reverts that fix until a better solution can be found.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly handle memory protection of the Virtual Dynamic Shared Object page when running a 32-bit application on a 64-bit kernel. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (Only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.) (CVE-2009-4271)

It was discovered that the r8169 network driver did not correctly check the size of Ethernet frames. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-4537)

Wei Yongjun discovered that SCTP did not correctly validate certain chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to monopolize CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (Only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.) (CVE-2010-0008)

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly limit certain privileged IO accesses on x86. Processes in the guest OS with access to IO regions could gain further privileges within the guest OS. (Did not affect Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.) (CVE-2010-0298, CVE-2010-0306, CVE-2010-0419)

Evgeniy Polyakov discovered that IPv6 did not correctly handle certain TUN packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(Only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.) (CVE-2010-0437)

Sachin Prabhu discovered that GFS2 did not correctly handle certain locks. A local attacker with write access to a GFS2 filesystem could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0727)

Jamie Strandboge discovered that network virtio in KVM did not correctly handle certain high-traffic conditions. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted traffic to a guest OS, causing the guest to crash, leading to a denial of service. (Only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.) (CVE-2010-0741)

Marcus Meissner discovered that the USB subsystem did not correctly handle certain error conditions. A local attacker with access to a USB device could exploit this to read recently used kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy and potentially root privilege escalation. (CVE-2010-1083)

Neil Brown discovered that the Bluetooth subsystem did not correctly handle large amounts of traffic. A physically proximate remote attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted traffic that would consume all available system memory, leading to a denial of service. (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 10.04 LTS were not affected.) (CVE-2010-1084)

Jody Bruchon discovered that the sound driver for the AMD780V did not correctly handle certain conditions. A local attacker with access to this hardward could exploit the flaw to cause a system crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-1085)

Ang Way Chuang discovered that the DVB driver did not correctly handle certain MPEG2-TS frames. An attacker could exploit this by delivering specially crafted frames to monopolize CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was not affected.) (CVE-2010-1086)

Trond Myklebust discovered that NFS did not correctly handle truncation under certain conditions. A local attacker with write access to an NFS share could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was not affected.) (CVE-2010-1087)

Al Viro discovered that automount of NFS did not correctly handle symlinks under certain conditions. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS were not affected.) (CVE-2010-1088)

Matt McCutchen discovered that ReiserFS did not correctly protect xattr files in the .reiserfs_priv directory. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1146)

Eugene Teo discovered that CIFS did not correctly validate arguments when creating new files. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or possibly gain root privileges if mmap_min_addr was not set. (CVE-2010-1148)

Catalin Marinas and Tetsuo Handa discovered that the TTY layer did not correctly release process IDs. A local attacker could exploit this to consume kernel resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1162)

Neil Horman discovered that TIPC did not correctly check its internal state. A local attacker could send specially crafted packets via AF_TIPC that would cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was not affected.) (CVE-2010-1187)

Masayuki Nakagawa discovered that IPv6 did not correctly handle certain settings when listening. If a socket were listening with the IPV6_RECVPKTINFO flag, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (Only Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was affected.) (CVE-2010-1188)

Oleg Nesterov discovered that the Out-Of-Memory handler did not correctly handle certain arrangements of processes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1488).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the ip6_dst_lookup_tail() function in the Linux kernel. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by sending IPv6 traffic to a target system, leading to a system crash (kernel OOPS) if dst->neighbour is NULL on the target system when receiving an IPv6 packet. (CVE-2010-0437, Important)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* programs compiled on x86, and that also call sched_rr_get_interval(), were silently corrupted when run on 64-bit systems. With this update, when such programs attempt to call sched_rr_get_interval() on 64-bit systems, sys32_sched_rr_get_interval() is called instead, which resolves this issue. (BZ#557682)

* the fix for CVE-2009-4538 provided by RHSA-2010:0079 introduced a regression, preventing Wake on LAN (WoL) working for network devices using the Intel PRO/1000 Linux driver, e1000e. Attempting to configure WoL for such devices resulted in the following error, even when configuring valid options :

'Cannot set new wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol'

This update resolves this regression, and WoL now works as expected for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#559333)

* a number of bugs have been fixed in the copy_user routines for Intel 64 and AMD64 systems, one of which could have possibly led to data corruption. (BZ#568305)

* on some systems, a race condition in the inode-based file event notifications implementation caused soft lockups and the following messages :

'BUG: warning at fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()' 'BUG: soft lockup - CPU#[x] stuck for 10s!'

This update resolves this race condition, and also removes the inotify debugging code from the kernel, due to race conditions in that code.
(BZ#568662)

* if a program that calls posix_fadvise() were compiled on x86, and then run on a 64-bit system, that program could experience various problems, including performance issues and the call to posix_fadvise() failing, causing the program to not run as expected or even abort.
With this update, when such programs attempt to call posix_fadvise() on 64-bit systems, sys32_fadvise64() is called instead, which resolves this issue. This update also fixes other 32-bit system calls that were mistakenly called on 64-bit systems (including systems running the kernel-xen kernel). (BZ#569595)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Extended Update Support.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issue :

* a flaw was found in the sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* the fix for CVE-2009-4538 provided by RHSA-2010:0111 introduced a regression, preventing Wake on LAN (WoL) working for network devices using the Intel PRO/1000 Linux driver, e1000e. Attempting to configure WoL for such devices resulted in the following error, even when configuring valid options :

'Cannot set new wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol'

This update resolves this regression, and WoL now works as expected for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#565495)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2010-166:02 advisory.

    The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system.  The     kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device     input and output, etc.
    Security issues fixed with this release:
    CVE-2009-4308     The ext4_decode_error function in fs/ext4/super.c in the ext4 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32     allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference), and     possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted read-only filesystem that lacks a journal.
    CVE-2010-0003     The print_fatal_signal function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.4 on the i386     platform, when print-fatal-signals is enabled, allows local users to discover the contents of arbitrary     memory locations by jumping to an address and then reading a log file, and might allow local users to     cause a denial of service (system slowdown or crash) by jumping to an address.
    CVE-2010-0007     net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the ebtables module in the netfilter framework in the Linux kernel     before 2.6.33-rc4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for setting or modifying rules, which     allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and configure arbitrary network-traffic     filtering via a modified ebtables application.
    CVE-2010-0008     The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (infinite loop) via (1) an Out Of The Blue (OOTB) chunk or (2) a chunk of zero length.
    CVE-2010-0415     The do_pages_move function in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not validate node     values, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory locations, cause a denial of service     (OOPS), and possibly have unspecified other impact by specifying a node that is not part of the kernel's     node set.
    CVE-2010-0437     The ip6_dst_lookup_tail function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not     properly handle certain circumstances involving an IPv6 TUN network interface and a large number of     neighbors, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
    CVE-2009-4536     drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c in the e1000 driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.32.3 and earlier handles     Ethernet frames that exceed the MTU by processing certain trailing payload data as if it were a complete     frame, which allows remote attackers to bypass packet filters via a large packet with a crafted payload.
    NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2009-1385.
    CVE-2009-4537     drivers/net/r8169.c in the r8169 driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.32.3 and earlier does not properly check     the size of an Ethernet frame that exceeds the MTU, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of     service (temporary network outage) via a packet with a crafted size, in conjunction with certain packets     containing A characters and certain packets containing E characters; or (2) cause a denial of service     (system crash) via a packet with a crafted size, in conjunction with certain packets containing '0'     characters, related to the value of the status register and erroneous behavior associated with the     RxMaxSize register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2009-1389.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream     Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A     remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP     packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

  - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux     kernel. During a core dump, the kernel did not check if     the Virtual Dynamically-linked Shared Object page was     accessible. On Intel 64 and AMD64 systems, a local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a kernel     panic by running a crafted 32-bit application.
    (CVE-2009-4271, Important)

  - an information leak was found in the     print_fatal_signal() implementation in the Linux kernel.
    When '/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals' is set to 1     (the default value is 0), memory that is reachable by     the kernel could be leaked to user-space. This issue     could also result in a system crash. Note that this flaw     only affected the i386 architecture. (CVE-2010-0003,     Moderate)

  - on AMD64 systems, it was discovered that the kernel did     not ensure the ELF interpreter was available before     making a call to the SET_PERSONALITY macro. A local     attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of     service by running a 32-bit application that attempts to     execute a 64-bit application. (CVE-2010-0307, Moderate)

  - missing capability checks were found in the ebtables     implementation, used for creating an Ethernet bridge     firewall. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to     bypass intended capability restrictions and modify     ebtables rules. (CVE-2010-0007, Low)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - under some circumstances, a locking bug could have     caused an online ext3 file system resize to deadlock,     which may have, in turn, caused the file system or the     entire system to become unresponsive. In either case, a     reboot was required after the deadlock. With this     update, using resize2fs to perform an online resize of     an ext3 file system works as expected. (BZ#553135)

  - some ATA and SCSI devices were not honoring the     barrier=1 mount option, which could result in data loss     after a crash or power loss. This update applies a patch     to the Linux SCSI driver to ensure ordered write     caching. This solution does not provide cache flushes;
    however, it does provide data integrity on devices that     have no write caching (or where write caching is     disabled) and no command queuing. For systems that have     command queuing or write cache enabled there is no     guarantee of data integrity after a crash. (BZ#560563)

  - it was found that lpfc_find_target() could loop     continuously when scanning a list of nodes due to a     missing spinlock. This missing spinlock allowed the list     to be changed after the list_empty() test, resulting in     a NULL value, causing the loop. This update adds the     spinlock, resolving the issue. (BZ#561453)

  - the fix for CVE-2009-4538 provided by RHSA-2010:0020     introduced a regression, preventing Wake on LAN (WoL)     working for network devices using the Intel PRO/1000     Linux driver, e1000e. Attempting to configure WoL for     such devices resulted in the following error, even when     configuring valid options :

    'Cannot set new wake-on-lan settings: Operation not     supported not setting wol'

This update resolves this regression, and WoL now works as expected for network devices using the e1000e driver. (BZ#565496)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

a. vCenter Server and vCenter Update Manager update Microsoft    SQL Server 2005 Express Edition to Service Pack 3

   Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Express)    distributed with vCenter Server 4.1 Update 1 and vCenter Update    Manager 4.1 Update 1 is upgraded from  SQL Express Service Pack 2    to SQL Express Service Pack 3, to address multiple security    issues that exist in the earlier releases of Microsoft SQL Express.

   Customers using other database solutions need not update for    these issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2008-5416, CVE-2008-0085, CVE-2008-0086,    CVE-2008-0107 and CVE-2008-0106 to the issues addressed in MS SQL    Express Service Pack 3.

b. vCenter Apache Tomcat Management Application Credential Disclosure

   The Apache Tomcat Manager application configuration file contains    logon credentials that can be read by unprivileged local users.

   The issue is resolved by removing the Manager application in    vCenter 4.1 Update 1.

   If vCenter 4.1 is updated to vCenter 4.1 Update 1 the logon    credentials are not present in the configuration file after the    update.

   VMware would like to thank Claudio Criscione of Secure Networking    for reporting this issue to us.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2010-2928 to this issue.

c. vCenter Server and ESX, Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version    1.6.0_21

   Oracle (Sun) JRE update to version 1.6.0_21, which addresses    multiple security issues that existed in earlier releases of    Oracle (Sun) JRE.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.6.0_19: CVE-2009-3555, CVE-2010-0082,    CVE-2010-0084, CVE-2010-0085, CVE-2010-0087, CVE-2010-0088,    CVE-2010-0089, CVE-2010-0090, CVE-2010-0091, CVE-2010-0092,    CVE-2010-0093, CVE-2010-0094, CVE-2010-0095, CVE-2010-0837,    CVE-2010-0838, CVE-2010-0839, CVE-2010-0840, CVE-2010-0841,    CVE-2010-0842, CVE-2010-0843, CVE-2010-0844, CVE-2010-0845,    CVE-2010-0846, CVE-2010-0847, CVE-2010-0848, CVE-2010-0849,    CVE-2010-0850.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following name to the security issue fixed in    Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.6.0_20: CVE-2010-0886.

d. vCenter Update Manager Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version   1.5.0_26

   Oracle (Sun) JRE update to version 1.5.0_26, which addresses    multiple security issues that existed in earlier releases of    Oracle (Sun) JRE.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.5.0_26: CVE-2010-3556, CVE-2010-3566,    CVE-2010-3567, CVE-2010-3550, CVE-2010-3561, CVE-2010-3573,    CVE-2010-3565,CVE-2010-3568, CVE-2010-3569,  CVE-2009-3555,    CVE-2010-1321, CVE-2010-3548, CVE-2010-3551, CVE-2010-3562,    CVE-2010-3571, CVE-2010-3554, CVE-2010-3559, CVE-2010-3572,    CVE-2010-3553, CVE-2010-3549, CVE-2010-3557, CVE-2010-3541,    CVE-2010-3574.

e. vCenter Server and ESX Apache Tomcat updated to version 6.0.28

   Apache Tomcat updated to version 6.0.28, which addresses multiple    security issues that existed in earlier releases of Apache Tomcat

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Apache Tomcat 6.0.24: CVE-2009-2693, CVE-2009-2901, CVE-2009-2902,i    and CVE-2009-3548.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Apache Tomcat 6.0.28: CVE-2010-2227, CVE-2010-1157.

f. vCenter Server third-party component OpenSSL updated to version    0.9.8n

   The version of the OpenSSL library in vCenter Server is updated to    0.9.8n.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433 to the    issues addressed in this version of OpenSSL.

g. ESX third-party component OpenSSL updated to version 0.9.8p

   The version of the ESX OpenSSL library is updated to 0.9.8p.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-3864 and CVE-2010-2939 to the    issues addressed in this update.

h. ESXi third-party component cURL updated

   The version of cURL library in ESXi is updated.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2010-0734 to the issues addressed in    this update.

i. ESX third-party component pam_krb5 updated

   The version of pam_krb5 library is updated.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2008-3825 and CVE-2009-1384 to the    issues addressed in the update.

j. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel

   The Service Console kernel is updated to include kernel version    2.6.18-194.11.1.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-1084, CVE-2010-2066, CVE-2010-2070,    CVE-2010-2226, CVE-2010-2248, CVE-2010-2521, CVE-2010-2524,    CVE-2010-0008, CVE-2010-0415, CVE-2010-0437, CVE-2009-4308,    CVE-2010-0003, CVE-2010-0007, CVE-2010-0307, CVE-2010-1086,    CVE-2010-0410, CVE-2010-0730, CVE-2010-1085, CVE-2010-0291,    CVE-2010-0622, CVE-2010-1087, CVE-2010-1173, CVE-2010-1437,    CVE-2010-1088, CVE-2010-1187, CVE-2010-1436, CVE-2010-1641, and    CVE-2010-3081 to the issues addressed in the update.

   Notes :
   - The update also addresses the 64-bit compatibility mode    stack pointer underflow issue identified by CVE-2010-3081. This    issue was patched in an ESX 4.1 patch prior to the release of    ESX 4.1 Update 1 and in a previous ESX 4.0 patch release.
   - The update also addresses CVE-2010-2240 for ESX 4.0.

Security fixes :

  - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     sctp_rcv_ootb() function in the Linux kernel Stream     Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. A     remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP     packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2010-0008, Important)

  - a missing boundary check was found in the     do_move_pages() function in the memory migration     functionality in the Linux kernel. A local user could     use this flaw to cause a local denial of service or an     information leak. (CVE-2010-0415, Important)

  - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     ip6_dst_lookup_tail() function in the Linux kernel. An     attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by     sending IPv6 traffic to a target system, leading to a     system crash (kernel OOPS) if dst->neighbour is NULL on     the target system when receiving an IPv6 packet.
    (CVE-2010-0437, Important)

  - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the ext4     file system code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker     could use this flaw to trigger a local denial of service     by mounting a specially crafted, journal-less ext4 file     system, if that file system forced an EROFS error.
    (CVE-2009-4308, Moderate)

  - an information leak was found in the     print_fatal_signal() implementation in the Linux kernel.
    When '/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals' is set to 1     (the default value is 0), memory that is reachable by     the kernel could be leaked to user-space. This issue     could also result in a system crash. Note that this flaw     only affected the i386 architecture. (CVE-2010-0003,     Moderate)

  - missing capability checks were found in the ebtables     implementation, used for creating an Ethernet bridge     firewall. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to     bypass intended capability restrictions and modify     ebtables rules. (CVE-2010-0007, Low)

Bug fixes :

  - a bug prevented Wake on LAN (WoL) being enabled on     certain Intel hardware. (BZ#543449)

  - a race issue in the Journaling Block Device. (BZ#553132)

  - programs compiled on x86, and that also call     sched_rr_get_interval(), were silently corrupted when     run on 64-bit systems. (BZ#557684)

  - the RHSA-2010:0019 update introduced a regression,     preventing WoL from working for network devices using     the e1000e driver. (BZ#559335)

  - adding a bonding interface in mode balance-alb to a     bridge was not functional. (BZ#560588)

  - some KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) guests     experienced slow performance (and possibly a crash)     after suspend/resume. (BZ#560640)

  - on some systems, VF cannot be enabled in dom0.
    (BZ#560665)

  - on systems with certain network cards, a system crash     occurred after enabling GRO. (BZ#561417)

  - for x86 KVM guests with pvclock enabled, the boot clocks     were registered twice, possibly causing KVM to write     data to a random memory area during the guest's life.
    (BZ#561454)

  - serious performance degradation for 32-bit applications,     that map (mmap) thousands of small files, when run on a     64-bit system. (BZ#562746)

  - improved kexec/kdump handling. Previously, on some     systems under heavy load, kexec/kdump was not     functional. (BZ#562772)

  - dom0 was unable to boot when using the Xen hypervisor on     a system with a large number of logical CPUs.
    (BZ#562777)

  - a fix for a bug that could potentially cause file system     corruption. (BZ#564281)

  - a bug caused infrequent cluster issues for users of     GFS2. (BZ#564288)

  - gfs2_delete_inode failed on read-only file systems.
    (BZ#564290)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

ID	名称	产品	系列	发布时间	最近更新时间	严重程度
45091	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2010:0146)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2010/3/19	2021/1/4	high
57212	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7516)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2011/12/13	2021/1/19	high
63922	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0149)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2013/1/24	2021/1/14	high
45092	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0147)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2010/3/19	2021/1/4	high
46270	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0147)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2010/5/11	2021/1/14	high
89674	VMware ESX / ESXi Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2011-0003) (remote check)	Nessus	Misc.	2016/3/4	2022/5/25	high
46811	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux regression (USN-947-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2010/6/4	2019/9/19	high
63921	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0148)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2013/1/24	2021/1/14	high
63926	RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0342)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2013/1/24	2021/1/14	high
291397	MiracleLinux 3 : kernel-2.6.18-128.15.AXS3 (AXSA:2010-166:02)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	2026/1/19	2026/2/5	high
60748	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	2012/8/1	2021/1/14	critical
59156	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7515)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2012/5/17	2021/1/19	high
51971	VMSA-2011-0003 : Third-party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESX	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	2011/2/14	2022/5/25	high
60749	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	2012/8/1	2021/1/14	high

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