Bug 922353 (CVE-2012-6548)

Summary:	CVE-2012-6548 Kernel: udf: information leak on export
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
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, bhu, davej, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, mcressma, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	922354, 922355
Bug Blocks:	858947

Description Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 11:17:50 UTC

Linux kernel built with UDF file system support is vulnerable to an
information leakage flaw. It occurs while doing an UDF export operation
via udf_encode_fh routine.

A user/program could use this flaw to leak kernel memory bytes.

Upstream fix:
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 -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200

Reference:
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 -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/21

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 11:25:14 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

This issue affects the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 17:28:30 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:1080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1080.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 18:25:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1051 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html