Bug 120028 - CAN-2004-0109 kernel iso9660 buffer overflow
Summary: CAN-2004-0109 kernel iso9660 buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ernie Petrides
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: 119235
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-05 12:04 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-04-22 18:52:26 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2004:183 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2004-04-22 04:00:00 UTC

Description Mark J. Cox 2004-04-05 12:04:38 UTC 
In Feburary, iDefense notified us of a flaw in the iso9660 filesystem
component of the Linux kernel.  

The Linux kernel performs no length checking on symbolic links stored
on an ISO9660 filesystem, allowing a malformed CD to perform an
arbitrary length overflow in kernel memory. 

In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to
mount a maliciously constructed filesystem (for example by being at
the machine in order to insert a cdrom)

This issue is embargoed until 1400UTC on April 14th 2004.
Comment 1 Ernie Petrides 2004-04-14 22:36:07 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just now been committed to the
Taroon U2 kernel patch pool in kernel version 2.4.21-14.EL.
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2004-04-15 20:28:47 UTC 
Removing embargo
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2004-04-21 18:47:09 UTC 
RHSA-2003:183 is in progress and currently in QA.
Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2004-04-22 18:52:26 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-183.html
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