Bug 520990 (CVE-2009-3228)
| Summary: | CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | atangrin, bhu, dhoward, jlieskov, jolsa, kyle, lgoncalv, rkhan, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2021-10-19 09:07:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 520863, 520865, 520992, 520993, 520994, 537296 | ||
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Description
Eugene Teo (Security Response)
2009-09-03 03:31:27 UTC
Upstream commits: http://git.kernel.org/linus/16ebb5e0b36ceadc8186f71d68b0c4fa4b6e781b http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=096ed17f20affc2db0e307658c69b67433992a7a MITRE's CVE-2009-3228 record: ----------------------------- The tc_fill_tclass function in net/sched/sch_api.c in the tc subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.31-rc9 does not initialize certain (1) tcm__pad1 and (2) tcm__pad2 structure members, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors. References: ----------- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=096ed17f20affc2db0e307658c69b67433992a7a http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=16ebb5e0b36ceadc8186f71d68b0c4fa4b6e781b http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/32830/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.37.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.31/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc9 This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Via RHSA-2009:1522 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1522.html This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-5 Via RHSA-2009:1540 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:1548 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html |