Bug 648658 (CVE-2010-4073)

Summary:	CVE-2010-4073 kernel: ipc/compat*.c: reading uninitialized stack memory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	arozansk, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, jkacur, jlieskov, jolsa, lgoncalv, ovasik, peterm, plyons, rkhan, vgoyal, williams
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Bug Depends On:	648691, 648692, 648693, 648694, 648695, 648810, 648811
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Description Petr Matousek 2010-11-01 21:15:19 UTC

Description of problem:
The compat ipc functions allow unprivileged users to read uninitialized stack memory, because some of the structures used and declared on the stack are not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.

Reference:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/6/492

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2010-11-02 10:38:21 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 as it did not include IPC compat functionality.

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-22 05:38:06 UTC

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9

Comment 5 Kyle McMartin 2010-11-23 15:06:48 UTC

Thanks, grabbing this fix for Fedora as it doesn't seem to have made it into the stable series.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-08 19:09:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5

Via RHSA-2010:0958 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-11 19:46:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0007 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 21:58:58 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-14 09:02:54 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-18 17:45:38 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