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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68355
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 14 FEDORA-2010-16826 (kernel)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to kernel
announced via advisory FEDORA-2010-16826.

Update Information:

Fix several important security issues.

Also fixes suspend on some systems with TPM chips, enables additional Ricoh SDHC adapters, and fixes a problem with the error message printed when an Intel IOMMU gets disabled.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #637688 - CVE-2010-2962 kernel: arbitrary kernel memory write via i915 GEM ioctl
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688
[ 2 ] Bug #642465 - CVE-2010-2963 kernel: v4l: VIDIOCSMICROCODE arbitrary write
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465
[ 3 ] Bug #639879 - CVE-2010-3698 kvm: invalid selector in fs/gs causes kernel panic
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639879
[ 4 ] Bug #642896 - CVE-2010-3904 RDS sockets local privilege escalation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642896

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2010-16826

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.2

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2962
BugTraq ID: 44067
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42745
http://secunia.com/advisories/42758
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2010:050 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2010:051 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2011:007 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3698
42745
44500
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44500
ADV-2010-3123
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3123
ADV-2010-3321
FEDORA-2010-18983
MDVSA-2011:029
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029
RHSA-2010:0842
RHSA-2010:0898
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0898.html
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9581d442b9058d3699b4be568b6e5eae38a41493
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639879
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2963
BugTraq ID: 44242
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44242
Debian Security Information: DSA-2126 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257
http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024710
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2010:053 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00008.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2010:057 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00004.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3904
Bugtraq: 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#362983
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/362983
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44677/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155751/vReliable-Datagram-Sockets-RDS-rds_page_copy_user-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://www.vsecurity.com/download/tools/linux-rds-exploit.c
http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20101019-1/
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0792.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024613
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
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