Bug 651698 (CVE-2010-4158) - CVE-2010-4158 kernel: socket filters infoleak
Summary: CVE-2010-4158 kernel: socket filters infoleak
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4158
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 651699 651700 651701 651702 651703 651704 651705
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-10 06:36 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-11 15:52 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-07-29 13:17:52 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0958 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2010-12-08 19:08:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0007 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-01-11 19:44:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0017 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 kernel security and bug fix update 2011-01-13 10:37:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0162 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-01-18 17:45:00 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-10 06:36:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
The "mem" array used as scratch space for socket filters is not initialized, allowing unprivileged users to leak kernel stack bytes.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146361.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077321.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2010-11-10 21:52:17 UTC 
This issue has been assigned the name CVE-2010-4158.
Comment 5 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-12 06:56:14 UTC 
We are aware that the public reproducer caused a deadlock issue on rhel-5. We have filed separate bugs for that. See CVE-2010-4161.
Comment 8 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-15 02:23:47 UTC 
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/57fe93b374a6b8711995c2d466c502af9f3a08bb
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-08 19:10:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5

Via RHSA-2010:0958 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-11 19:46:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0007 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:00:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-14 09:03:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-18 17:46:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2011:0162 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html
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