Bug 142965 - CAN-2004-1234 kernel denial of service vulnerability and exploit
Summary: CAN-2004-1234 kernel denial of service vulnerability and exploit
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Anderson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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: 142969 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-15 14:30 UTC by Wim Vereecken
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-12-23 20:48:02 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2004:689 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2004-12-23 05:00:00 UTC

Description Wim Vereecken 2004-12-15 14:30:20 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Crash binary (44 bytes) for the Linux kernel 2.4.21-20.EL and 
probably earlier versions, freezing the complete system, even when 
executed without root privileges.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-20.EL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 / Taroon Update 
3)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.wget http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~wvereeck/kernel/exploit
2.chmod 755 exploit
3../exploit (as non-root)
4.freeze and cook up an excuse for your sysadmins
    

Actual Results:  The system freezes, so nothing world-astonishing 
happens.

Expected Results:  No crash/freeze, there are other OS's for this.

Additional info:

There seems to be a problem with the e_phnum byte in the ELF header,
which crashes the linker/kernel, when it holds a zero.
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-12-15 14:51:33 UTC 
Please see http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-549.html
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2004-12-15 16:53:37 UTC 
*** Bug 142969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2004-12-15 22:54:16 UTC 
I've just confirmed that the crash is reproducible (by an unprivileged user)
on the RHEL3 U4 kernel (2.4.21-27.EL), so I'm reopening this.
Comment 4 Ernie Petrides 2004-12-15 22:57:43 UTC 
Crash is in fput()+2, probably called from search_binary_handler().
Comment 5 Dave Anderson 2004-12-17 15:40:42 UTC 
Fix has been posted to rhkernel-list today.
Comment 6 Ernie Petrides 2004-12-20 23:42:30 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 E5
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.0.1.EL).
Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2004-12-21 13:21:23 UTC 
Note this is fixed upstream,
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@4076466d_SqUm4azg4_v3FIG2-X6XQ

CAN-2004-1234
Comment 8 Ernie Petrides 2004-12-22 21:56:23 UTC 
A fix for this problem has also been committed to the RHEL3 U5
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.4.EL).
Comment 9 Josh Bressers 2004-12-23 20:48:02 UTC 
An advisory 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-2004-689.html
Comment 10 Kirill Korotaev 2004-12-25 14:03:47 UTC 
FYI, to tell the truth, this patch is written by
Vasiliy Averin <vvs> from SWsoft Linux Kernel Team.
I've just posted it.
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