Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual page 102

Chapter 1. Package Updates
* a flaw was found in the FUSE implementation. When a system is low on memory, fuse_put_request()
could dereference an invalid pointer, possibly leading to a local denial of service or privilege
escalation. (CVE-2009-4021
* Tavis Ormandy discovered a deficiency in the fasync_helper() implementation. This could allow a
local, unprivileged user to leverage a use-after-free of locked, asynchronous file descriptors to cause a
denial of service or privilege escalation.
* the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers team reported the RHSA-2009:1243 update introduced two flaws
in the routing implementation. If an attacker was able to cause a large enough number of collisions
in the routing hash table (via specially-crafted packets) for the emergency route flush to trigger, a
deadlock could occur. Secondly, if the kernel routing cache was disabled, an uninitialized pointer
would be left behind after a route lookup, leading to a kernel panic.
* the RHSA-2009:0225 update introduced a rewrite attack flaw in the do_coredump() function. A
local attacker able to guess the file name a process is going to dump its core to, prior to the process
crashing, could use this flaw to append data to the dumped core file. This issue only affects systems
that have "/proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable" set to 2 (the default value is 0).
CVE-2006-6304
The fix for
file will not be recorded if the file already exists. For example, core files will not be overwritten on
subsequent crashes of processes whose core files map to the same name.
* an information leak was found in the Linux kernel. On AMD64 systems, 32-bit processes could
access and read certain 64-bit registers by temporarily switching themselves to 64-bit mode.
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(CVE-2009-2910 , Moderate)
* the RHBA-2008:0314 update introduced N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support in the qla2xxx
driver, resulting in two new sysfs pseudo files, "/sys/class/scsi_host/[a qla2xxx host]/vport_create" and
"vport_delete". These two files were world-writable by default, allowing a local user to change SCSI
host attributes. This flaw only affects systems using the qla2xxx driver and NPIV capable hardware.
604
(CVE-2009-3556 , Moderate)
* permission issues were found in the megaraid_sas driver. The "dbg_lvl" and "poll_mode_io" files on
the sysfs file system ("/sys/") had world-writable permissions. This could allow local, unprivileged users
to change the behavior of the driver.
* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the firewire-ohci driver used for OHCI compliant IEEE
1394 controllers. A local, unprivileged user with access to /dev/fw* files could issue certain IOCTL
calls, causing a denial of service or privilege escalation. The FireWire modules are blacklisted by
default, and if enabled, only root has access to the files noted above by default.
Moderate)
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-4021.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-4141.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-4272.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2006-6304.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2006-6304.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-2910.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-3556.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-3889.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-3939.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-4138.html
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(CVE-2009-4141
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changes the expected behavior: With suid_dumpable set to 2, the core
(CVE-2009-3889
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(CVE-2009-4272
(CVE-2006-6304
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CVE-2009-3939
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