Bug 487929 (CVE-2009-0745)

Summary: CVE-2009-0745 kernel: ext4: ext4_group_add() missing initialisation issue
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: anton, dhoward, esandeen, jpirko, kseifried, lgoncalv, lwang, rwheeler
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-03-01 14:33:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
Name: CVE-2009-0745
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0745
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Assigned: 20090227
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Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433
Reference: CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fdff73f094e7220602cc3f8959c7230517976412
Reference: CONFIRM:http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.19
Reference: CONFIRM:http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.7
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2009-0509
Reference: URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0509

The ext4_group_add function in fs/ext4/resize.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.19 and 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.7 does not properly initialize the group descriptor during a resize (aka resize2fs) operation, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by arranging for crafted values to be present in available memory.
Comment 2 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-03-01 14:44:07 UTC 
mrg-1 is affected by CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS is not set by default.
Comment 5 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-03-01 16:01:17 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1) run resize2fs /dev/vgX/name (ext4 formatted lvm2 volume)
Comment 9 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-03-19 04:16:49 UTC 
CVSS2 score of medium, 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 08:01:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1243 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:06:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1243 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 12:07:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1243 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html
Comment 16 Kurt Seifried 2011-10-25 17:38:36 UTC 
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