Bug 653604 (CVE-2010-4170) - CVE-2010-4170 Systemtap: Insecure loading of modules
Summary: CVE-2010-4170 Systemtap: Insecure loading of modules
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4170
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: 653677 653678 653679 653680 653684 653685 654318
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-15 19:12 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-11 16:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-22 15:41:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0894 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: systemtap security update 2010-11-17 14:38:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0895 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: systemtap security update 2010-11-17 14:54:15 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-11-15 19:12:17 UTC 
It was found that systemtap runtime tool (staprun)
did not handle the loading of user specified modules
securely. A local attacker could use this flaw to
escalate their privileges.

References:
[1] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2010-q4/msg00230.html

Upstream changeset:
[2] http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=commit;h=b7565b41228bea196cefa3a7d43ab67f8f9152e2

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-11-15 19:21:54 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the systemtap package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the systemtap package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-11-15 19:43:32 UTC 
The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-4170 has been assigned to this issue.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-17 14:38:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0894 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0894.html
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-17 14:54:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0895 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0895.html
Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-11-17 15:15:13 UTC 
Created systemtap tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 654318]
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