Bug 862877 (CVE-2012-0957)

Summary: CVE-2012-0957 kernel: uts: stack memory leak in UNAME26
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bhu, iboverma, jkacur, jneedle, lgoncalv, mcressma, rt-maint, security-response-team, williams
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Bug Depends On: 862881, 864822, 864824    
Bug Blocks: 862886    

Description Petr Matousek 2012-10-03 19:58:06 UTC 
Description of the problem:
The uname() syscall since 3.0 with the UNAME26 personality leaks kernel
stack memory contents.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.
Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2012-10-03 20:09:57 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue did affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.
Comment 6 Petr Matousek 2012-10-10 08:11:18 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 864824]
Comment 7 Petr Matousek 2012-10-10 08:12:33 UTC 
Upstream proposed patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/9/550
Comment 8 John Kacur 2012-11-06 11:12:07 UTC 
This is the upstream patch
git describe --all --contains 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e
tags/v3.7-rc2~10^2~5
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:59:18 UTC 
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