Bug 820039 (CVE-2012-3430)
| Summary: | CVE-2012-3430 kernel: recv{from,msg}() on an rds socket can leak kernel memory | ||
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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: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | agordeev, anton, arozansk, davej, dhoward, fenlason, fhrbata, gansalmon, gary.p.anderson, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, pmatouse, security-response-team, sforsber, wpan |
| 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: | 2013-08-24 12:52:52 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: | 822727, 822728, 822729, 822731, 843553, 843554 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 819767 | ||
Statement: The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. A future kernel updates may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 843554] Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7 kernel-3.4.7-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by the Red Hat InfiniBand team. This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1304 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1304.html The statement from Petr Matousek on July 29th states that RHEL 5 is affected by this issue. Is there any current release or estimated release date for the RHEL 5 resolution/fix? (In reply to comment #15) > The statement from Petr Matousek on July 29th states that RHEL 5 is affected > by this issue. Is there any current release or estimated release date for > the RHEL 5 resolution/fix? Hello, Gary. Today we are going to release a regular kernel update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 that fixes this issue. Best regards, -- Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:1323 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2012:1491 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1491.html |
Two similar issues: 1) Reported by Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford: recvfrom() on an RDS socket can disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)-sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) bytes of kernel stack to userspace when receiving a datagram. 2) Reported by Jay Fenlason: recv{from,msg}() on an RDS socket can disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) bytes of kernel stack to userspace when other code paths are taken.