Bug 428961 (CVE-2008-0007) - CVE-2008-0007 kernel: insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap
Summary: CVE-2008-0007 kernel: insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-0007
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 428965 428966 428967 428968 428969 428970 428971
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-16 14:48 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-11 12:41 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-21 17:14:21 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0211 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-05-07 07:03:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0233 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-05-07 07:47:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0237 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-05-07 07:28:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0787 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2009-01-05 07:08:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0001 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2009-01-08 15:47:52 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-01-16 14:48:37 UTC
Description of problem:

Problem description from Nick Piggin:

<cite>

Hi,

I have done an audit of some code and found security problems in several
drivers and some core code as well. I have only verified it is a problem and
patched it, but not explored the severity of the problem. However, it could be
anything up to allowing a local user to have read/write access of arbitrary
kernel memory.

</cite>

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Nick Piggin for responsibly disclosing this issue.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-02-08 08:56:15 UTC
Link to 2.6.23-stable review patch:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/457

Link to kernel changelog:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.17

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-02-08 09:27:39 UTC
CVE-2008-0007 description:

Linux kernel before 2.6.22.17, when using certain drivers that register a fault
handler that does not perform range checks, allows local users to access kernel
memory via an out-of-range offset.

Comment 9 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-03-03 16:17:44 UTC
This issue already public -- see comment c#7 for more details.

Comment 13 Vincent Danen 2010-12-21 17:14:21 UTC
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2008:0211)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (RHSA-2008:023)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2008:0237)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 (RHSA-2008:0787)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2009:0001)


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