Bug 444416 (CVE-2008-1675) - CVE-2008-1675 kernel: [netdrvr] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start
Summary: CVE-2008-1675 kernel: [netdrvr] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to funct...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: CVE-2008-1675
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 444414
Blocks: F9KernelBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-28 10:28 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2008-05-14 21:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-02 10:57:32 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-04-28 10:28:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

Alan Cox has reported the followin issue in Tehuti network driver:

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Random auditing results

tehuti has no security checks on the do_ioctl functions and
it has ioctl methods for patch arbitary 32bit offset from
registers with arbitary 32bit value. Nasty hole

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Additional info:

The Tehuti network driver was introduced in 2.6.24 kernel:

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/24/drivers/net/tehuti.h

Proposed patch:

http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f946dffed6334f08da065a89ed65026ebf8b33b4
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-04-28 10:30:58 UTC 
Please apply first patch from BZ#444414 as these two affects one file
and depend one on the other.
Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2008-05-01 06:36:56 UTC 
Patch in 2.6.25-13
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-05-14 21:31:57 UTC 
kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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