Bug 652529 (CVE-2010-4162)

Summary:	CVE-2010-4162 kernel: bio: integer overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
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:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bhu, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, pmatouse, rt-maint
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Bug Depends On:	652530, 652531, 652532
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-12 06:27:04 UTC

Due to integer underflow and overflow issues when determining the number of pages required for maliciously crafted I/O requests, a local user could send a device ioctl that results in the sequential allocation of a very large number of pages, causing the OOM killer to be invoked and crashing the system:

Proposed patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=cb4644cac4a2797afc847e6c92736664d4b0ea34

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-12 06:37:44 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they did not backport the upstream commit c5dec1c3 that introduced the issue. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html.

Comment 5 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-15 06:22:50 UTC

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/cb4644cac4a2797afc847e6c92736664d4b0ea34

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-11 19:45:46 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 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-10 20:04:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5

Via RHSA-2011:0330 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html