Bug 645867 (CVE-2010-3859)

Summary:	CVE-2010-3859 kernel: tipc: heap overflow in tipc_msg_build()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dhoward, eteo, jolsa, plyons, rkhan
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Bug Depends On:	645871, 645872, 651924, 656871
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Description Petr Matousek 2010-10-22 17:37:04 UTC

Problem Description:

The tipc_msg_build() function in net/tipc/msg.c contains an exploitable kernel heap overflow that would allow a local user to escalate privileges to root by issuing maliciously crafted sendmsg() calls via TIPC sockets.

Reference:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128770476511716&w=2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/2

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2010-10-22 17:37:43 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-3859.

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include support for Transparent Inter-Process Communication Protocol (TIPC). A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw. As a
preventive measure, we plan to include the fixes in a future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Mitigation:

For users that do not run applications that use TIPC, you can prevent the TIPC
module from being loaded by adding the following entry to the end of the
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file:

blacklist tipc

This way, the TIPC module cannot be loaded accidentally, which may occur if an
application that requires TIPC is started. A reboot is not necessary for this
change to take effect but do make sure the module is not loaded in the first
place. You can verify that by running:

lsmod | grep tipc

You may also consider removing the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability from the current
global capability set to prevent kernel modules from being loaded or unloaded.
The CAP_SYS_MODULE has a capability number of 16 (see linux/capability.h). The
default value has all the bits set. To remove this capability, you have to
clear the 16th bit of the default 32-bit value, e.g. 0xffffff ^ (1 << 16):

echo 0xFFFEFFFF > /proc/sys/kernel/cap-bound

Comment 7 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-10-28 02:34:19 UTC

Upstream attempting to fix this, follow the thread starting with:
[PATCH 0/4] RFC: tipc int vs size_t fixes, Paul Gortmaker
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145247.html

Comment 8 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-23 08:51:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> Upstream attempting to fix this, follow the thread starting with:
> [PATCH 0/4] RFC: tipc int vs size_t fixes, Paul Gortmaker
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145247.html

Actually, these two fixed this issue:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0
http://git.kernel.org/linus/8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-04 16:52:43 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0004 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-18 17:45:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2011:0162 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html