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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:32:58 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaks

On 03/21/2011 12:35 PM, Eugene Teo wrote:
>> "Structures ipt_replace, compat_ipt_replace, and xt_get_revision are
>> copied from userspace. Fields of these structs that are
>> zero-terminated strings are not checked. When they are used as argument
>> to a format string containing "%s" in request_module(), some sensitive
>> information is leaked to userspace via argument of spawned modprobe
>> process.
>>
>> The first bug was introduced before the git epoch; the second is
>> introduced by 6b7d31fc (v2.6.15-rc1); the third is introduced by
>> 6b7d31fc (v2.6.15-rc1). To trigger the bug one should have
>> CAP_NET_ADMIN."
>> http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=129978081009955&w=2
>
> [PATCH] ipv4: netfilter: arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace
> CVE-2011-1170

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-1170
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=42eab94fff18cb1091d3501cd284d6bd6cc9c143

>> "Structures ipt_replace, compat_ipt_replace, and xt_get_revision are
>> copied from userspace. Fields of these structs that are
>> zero-terminated strings are not checked. When they are used as argument
>> to a format string containing "%s" in request_module(), some sensitive
>> information is leaked to userspace via argument of spawned modprobe
>> process.
>>
>> The first and the third bugs were introduced before the git epoch; the
>> second was introduced in 2722971c (v2.6.17-rc1). To trigger the bug
>> one should have CAP_NET_ADMIN."
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129978077609894&w=2
>
> [PATCH] ipv4: netfilter: ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace
> CVE-2011-1171

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-1171
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=78b79876761b86653df89c48a7010b5cbd41a84a

>> "'buffer' string is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether
>> it is
>> zero terminated. This may lead to overflow inside of simple_strtoul().
>> Changli Gao suggested to copy not more than user supplied 'size' bytes.
>>
>> It was introduced before the git epoch. Files "ipt_CLUSTERIP/*" are
>> root writable only by default, however, on some setups permissions
>> might be
>> relaxed to e.g. network admin user."
>> http://marc.info/?l=netfilter&m=129978077509888&w=2
>> http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=130036157327564&w=2
>
> I'm reluctant to assign a CVE name for this one. The default perms for
> this is S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR. I will let Steve decide for this one.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/689337
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=961ed183a9fd080cf306c659b8736007e44065a5

>> "Structures ip6t_replace, compat_ip6t_replace, and xt_get_revision are
>> copied from userspace. Fields of these structs that are
>> zero-terminated strings are not checked. When they are used as argument
>> to a format string containing "%s" in request_module(), some sensitive
>> information is leaked to userspace via argument of spawned modprobe
>> process.
>>
>> The first bug was introduced before the git epoch; the second was
>> introduced in 3bc3fe5e (v2.6.25-rc1); the third is introduced by
>> 6b7d31fc (v2.6.15-rc1). To trigger the bug one should have
>> CAP_NET_ADMIN."
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129978086410061&w=2
>
> [PATCH] ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace
> CVE-2011-1172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-1172
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a8ab060779779de8aea92ce3337ca348f973f54

>> "struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
>> x86_64. These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
>> sending 'ah' to the network. This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
>> infoleak.
>>
>> This bug was introduced before the git epoch."
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130036203528021&w=2
>
> [PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network
> CVE-2011-1173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e

Thanks, Eugene
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