Bug 648660 (CVE-2010-4075)

Summary: CVE-2010-4075 kernel: drivers/serial/serial_core.c: reading uninitialized stack memory
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arozansk, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, jkacur, jolsa, lgoncalv, peterm, plyons, rkhan, vgoyal, williams
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Bug Depends On: 648699, 648700, 648701, 648702, 648703, 648808, 648809    
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Description Petr Matousek 2010-11-01 21:19:12 UTC
Description of problem:
The TIOCGICOUNT device ioctl in serial_core.c allows unprivileged users to read uninitialized stack memory, because the "reserved" member of the serial_icounter_struct struct declared on the stack is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.

Reference:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.1/03388.html

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2010-11-02 10:47:38 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 the affected functionality.

Comment 9 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-22 05:43:13 UTC
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/d281da7ff6f70efca0553c288bb883e8605b3862

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-08 19:09:57 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 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-11 19:46:26 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 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 21:59:03 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 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-14 09:03:03 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 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-18 17:45:43 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