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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54038
Category:SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2005:003 (kernel)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory SUSE-SA:2005:003.

Several exploitable security problems were identified and fixed in
the Linux kernel, the core of every SUSE Linux product.

- Due to missing locking in the sys_uselib system call a local attacker
can gain root access. This was found by Paul Starzetz and is tracked
by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2004-1235.

- Paul Starzetz also found a race condition in SMP page table handling
which could lead to a local attacker gaining root access on SMP
machines. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2005-0001.


- A local denial of service was found in the auditing subsystem which
have lead a local attacker crashing the machine. This was reported
and fixed by Redhat.

- The sendmsg / cmsg fix from the previous kernel update was faulty
on 64bit systems with 32bit compatibility layer and could lead to
32bit applications not working correctly on those 64bit systems.

- The smbfs security fixes from a before-previous kernel update were
faulty for some file write cases.

- A local denial of service with Direct I/O access to NFS file systems
could lead a local attacker to crash a machine with NFS mounts.

- grsecurity reported a signed integer problem in the SCSI ioctl
handling which had a missing boundary check.
Due to C language specifics, this evaluation was not correct and
there actually is no problem in this code.
The signed / unsigned mismatch was fixed nevertheless.

- Several more small non security problems were fixed.

Solution:
Update your system with the packages as indicated in
the referenced security advisory.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SUSE-SA:2005:003

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.9

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1235
BugTraq ID: 12190
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12190
Bugtraq: 20050107 Linux kernel sys_uselib local root vulnerability (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110512575901427&w=2
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2005:930
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000930
Debian Security Information: DSA-1067 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067
Debian Security Information: DSA-1069 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069
Debian Security Information: DSA-1070 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070
Debian Security Information: DSA-1082 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/7806
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/7805
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9567
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-016.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-017.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-043.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-092.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20162
http://secunia.com/advisories/20163
http://secunia.com/advisories/20202
http://secunia.com/advisories/20338
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:001 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_01_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0001/
XForce ISS Database: linux-uselib-gain-privileges(18800)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18800
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0001
BugTraq ID: 12244
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12244
Bugtraq: 20050112 Linux kernel i386 SMP page fault handler privilege escalation (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110554694522719&w=2
Bugtraq: 20050114 [USN-60-0] Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110581146702951&w=2
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/030826.html
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10322
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012862
http://secunia.com/advisories/13822
XForce ISS Database: linux-fault-handler-gain-privileges(18849)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18849
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