Bug 642465 (CVE-2010-2963) - CVE-2010-2963 kernel: v4l: VIDIOCSMICROCODE arbitrary write
Summary: CVE-2010-2963 kernel: v4l: VIDIOCSMICROCODE arbitrary write
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-2963
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 642469 642470 642471 642472 642473
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-13 02:20 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-11 15:17 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A vulnerability was discovered in the 32-bit compatibility code for the VIDIOCSMICROCODE IOCTL (Input/Output Control) in the Video4Linux implementation. It does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but as a preventive measure, this update removes the code. Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this vulnerability.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 09:15:11 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0839 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2010-11-09 18:06:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0842 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2010-11-22 19:34:20 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-10-13 02:20:55 UTC
The ioctl32 v4l1 compat code for VIDIOCSMICROCODE does not check the destination buffer for a copy_from_user() call, which allows anyone with access to a v4l device to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations. This allocates the memory and uses a compat pointer for the copy.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.

Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-10-13 02:23:48 UTC
Introduced in eb4eeccc (v2.6.18-rc4), also see in 92f45bad (v2.6.29-rc1).

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-10-13 07:09:43 UTC
Public demo..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxpae-M7Js

Comment 5 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2010-10-13 16:47:04 UTC
Ok, only Stradis driver actually uses it. I doubt that stradis still work nowadays, and it is not compiled on RHEL5/RHEL6. Need to check mrg. Patch is as simple as remove the compat bits for this ioctl.

Comment 8 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-10-14 04:23:34 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 as they did not include the upstream commit eb4eeccc that introduced the problem. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not provide support for the Stradis driver that uses the vulnerable compat code for VIDIOCSMICROCODE. As a preventive measure, we have removed the vulnerable code in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html. We plan to remove the vulnerable code in a future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

Comment 11 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-08 05:19:09 UTC
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-09 18:06:40 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0839 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:09:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0842 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Comment 15 Martin Prpič 2010-11-11 14:09:30 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
A vulnerability was discovered in the 32-bit compatibility code for the VIDIOCSMICROCODE IOCTL (Input/Output Control) in the Video4Linux implementation. It does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but as a preventive measure, this update removes the code. Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this vulnerability.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-22 19:35:42 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0842 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html


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