Bug 460401 (CVE-2008-3525)

Summary: CVE-2008-3525 kernel: missing capability checks in sbni_ioctl()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dhoward, lwang
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Bug Depends On: 460402, 460403, 460404    
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-08-28 03:38:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Eugene Teo reported some bogus capability checks in SBNI WAN driver. Proper capability checks are required for the privileged operations.

Reference:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121980722629750&w=2

Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-08-28 03:42:46 UTC
Proposed upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2455eb176ac87081bbfc9a44b21c7cd2bc1967e

Not in linux-2.6 yet.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-10-23 16:37:56 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-12-21 17:25:30 UTC
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 (RHSA-2008:0787)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2008:0973)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2009:0001)