Bug 455275 (CVE-2008-2148) - CVE-2008-2148 kernel: fix permission checking in sys_utimensat
Summary: CVE-2008-2148 kernel: fix permission checking in sys_utimensat
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-2148
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: 453136
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-14 16:23 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-24 06:08:15 UTC
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Proposed upstream patch (2.31 KB, patch)
2008-07-14 16:27 UTC, Eugene Teo (Security Response) 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0585 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-08-26 19:56:57 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-14 16:23:49 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2148 to the
following vulnerability:

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other
versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW
and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file
times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

References:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commit;h=f9dfda1ad0637a89a64d001cf81478bd8d9b6306
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0169
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29134
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1543/references
http://secunia.com/advisories/30198
http://secunia.com/advisories/30241
http://secunia.com/advisories/30818
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42342
Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-14 16:26:19 UTC 
Proposed upstream commit: 02c6be615f1fcd37ac5ed93a3ad6692ad8991cd9
Comment 2 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-14 16:27:15 UTC 
Created attachment 311724 [details]
Proposed upstream patch
Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-07-14 16:27:49 UTC 
Testcase/output can be found at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/7/284
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