4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks
CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak
This update fixes the following security issues :
This update also fixes the following bugs :
a packet duplication issue was fixed via the RHSA-2008:0665 update; however, the fix introduced a problem for systems using network bonding: Backup slaves were unable to receive ARP packets. When using network bonding in the ‘active-backup’ mode and with the ‘arp_validate=3’ option, the bonding driver considered such backup slaves as being down (since they were not receiving ARP packets), preventing successful failover to these devices. (BZ#519384)
due to insufficient memory barriers in the network code, a process sleeping in select() may have missed notifications about new data. In rare cases, this bug may have caused a process to sleep forever. (BZ#519386)
the driver version number in the ata_piix driver was not changed between Scientific Linux 4.7 and Scientific Linux 4.8, even though changes had been made between these releases. This could have prevented the driver from loading on systems that check driver versions, as this driver appeared older than it was. (BZ#519389)
a bug in nlm_lookup_host() could have led to un-reclaimed locks on file systems, resulting in the umount command failing. This bug could have also prevented NFS services from being relocated correctly in clustered environments. (BZ#519656)
the data buffer ethtool_get_strings() allocated, for the igb driver, was smaller than the amount of data that was copied in igb_get_strings(), because of a miscalculation in IGB_QUEUE_STATS_LEN, resulting in memory corruption.
This bug could have led to a kernel panic. (BZ#522738)
in some situations, write operations to a TTY device were blocked even when the O_NONBLOCK flag was used. A reported case of this issue occurred when a single TTY device was opened by two users (one using blocking mode, and the other using non-blocking mode). (BZ#523930)
a deadlock was found in the cciss driver. In rare cases, this caused an NMI lockup during boot. Messages such as ‘cciss: controller cciss[x] failed, stopping.’ and ‘cciss[x]: controller not responding.’ may have been displayed on the console. (BZ#525725)
on 64-bit PowerPC systems, a rollover bug in the ibmveth driver could have caused a kernel panic. In a reported case, this panic occurred on a system with a large uptime and under heavy network load. (BZ#527225)
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(60682);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-4881", "CVE-2009-3228");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks
CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak
This update fixes the following security issues :
- multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the
Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network
structures was not initialized properly before being
sent to user-space. These flaws could lead to
information leaks. (CVE-2005-4881, CVE-2009-3228,
Moderate)
This update also fixes the following bugs :
- a packet duplication issue was fixed via the
RHSA-2008:0665 update; however, the fix introduced a
problem for systems using network bonding: Backup slaves
were unable to receive ARP packets. When using network
bonding in the 'active-backup' mode and with the
'arp_validate=3' option, the bonding driver considered
such backup slaves as being down (since they were not
receiving ARP packets), preventing successful failover
to these devices. (BZ#519384)
- due to insufficient memory barriers in the network code,
a process sleeping in select() may have missed
notifications about new data. In rare cases, this bug
may have caused a process to sleep forever. (BZ#519386)
- the driver version number in the ata_piix driver was not
changed between Scientific Linux 4.7 and Scientific
Linux 4.8, even though changes had been made between
these releases. This could have prevented the driver
from loading on systems that check driver versions, as
this driver appeared older than it was. (BZ#519389)
- a bug in nlm_lookup_host() could have led to
un-reclaimed locks on file systems, resulting in the
umount command failing. This bug could have also
prevented NFS services from being relocated correctly in
clustered environments. (BZ#519656)
- the data buffer ethtool_get_strings() allocated, for the
igb driver, was smaller than the amount of data that was
copied in igb_get_strings(), because of a miscalculation
in IGB_QUEUE_STATS_LEN, resulting in memory corruption.
This bug could have led to a kernel panic. (BZ#522738)
- in some situations, write operations to a TTY device
were blocked even when the O_NONBLOCK flag was used. A
reported case of this issue occurred when a single TTY
device was opened by two users (one using blocking mode,
and the other using non-blocking mode). (BZ#523930)
- a deadlock was found in the cciss driver. In rare cases,
this caused an NMI lockup during boot. Messages such as
'cciss: controller cciss[x] failed, stopping.' and
'cciss[x]: controller not responding.' may have been
displayed on the console. (BZ#525725)
- on 64-bit PowerPC systems, a rollover bug in the ibmveth
driver could have caused a kernel panic. In a reported
case, this panic occurred on a system with a large
uptime and under heavy network load. (BZ#527225)
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect."
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519384"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519386"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519389"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519656"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522738"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523930"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525725"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527225"
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0910&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=1943
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c357124f"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N");
script_cwe_id(200);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2009/10/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/10/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/08/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL4", reference:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4881
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3228
www.nessus.org/u?c357124f
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519384
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519386
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519389
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519656
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522738
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523930
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525725
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527225