SecurityTracker.com
Keep Track of the Latest Vulnerabilities
with SecurityTracker!
    Home    |    View Topics    |    Search    |    Contact Us    |    Help    |   

SecurityTracker
Archives


Your Ad Here
 
Click to Sign Up
Sign Up
Sign Up for Your FREE Weekly SecurityTracker E-mail Alert Summary
Instant Alerts
Buy our Premium Vulnerability Notification Service to receive customized, instant alerts
Affiliates
Put SecurityTracker Vulnerability Alerts on Your Web Site -- It's Free!
Partners
Become a Partner and License Our Database or Notification Service
Report a Bug
Report a vulnerability that you have found to SecurityTracker
bugs
@
securitytracker.com
Sign Up!





Category:  OS (Linux)  >  Linux Kernel Vendors:  kernel.org
Linux Kernel SBNI WAN Driver Privilege Check Bugs May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
SecurityTracker Alert ID:  1020969
SecurityTracker URL:  http://securitytracker.com/id?1020969
CVE Reference:  CVE-2008-3525   (Links to External Site)
Date:  Oct 2 2008
Impact:  Root access via local system, User access via local system
Fix Available:  Yes   Vendor Confirmed:  Yes  
Version(s): 2.4, 2.6
Description:  A vulnerability was reported in the Linux Kernel. A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.

The SIOCDEVRESINSTATS, SIOCDEVSHWSTATE, SIOCDEVENSLAVE, and SIOCDEVEMANSIPATE IOCTL requests do not properly check the user's privileges. A local user may be able to bypass security restrictions.

The vulnerability resides in the sbni_ioctl() function in 'drivers/net/wan/sbni.c.'

The original advisory is available at:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/29/2

Eugene Teo reported this vulnerability.
Impact:  A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
Solution:  The vendor has issued a source code fix, available at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f2455eb176ac87081bbfc9a44b21c7cd2bc1967e
Vendor URL:  www.kernel.org/ (Links to External Site)
Cause:  Access control error
Underlying OS:  Linux (Caldera/SCO), Linux (Conectiva), Linux (Debian), Linux (EnGarde), Linux (Gentoo), Linux (HP Secure OS), Linux (Immunix), Linux (Mandriva/Mandrake), Linux (Progeny Debian), Linux (Red Hat Enterprise), Linux (Red Hat Fedora), Linux (Red Hat Linux), Linux (SGI), Linux (Slackware), Linux (Sun), Linux (SuSE), Linux (Trustix), Linux (Turbo Linux), Linux (Ubuntu), Linux (Xandros)

Message History:   This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
Dec 17 2008 (Red Hat Issues Fix) Linux Kernel SBNI WAN Driver Privilege Check Bugs May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges   (bugzilla@redhat.com)
Red Hat has released a fix for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Jan 5 2009 (Red Hat Issues Fix) Linux Kernel SBNI WAN Driver Privilege Check Bugs May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges   (bugzilla@redhat.com)
Red Hat has released a fix for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Jan 8 2009 (Red Hat Issues Fix) Linux Kernel SBNI WAN Driver Privilege Check Bugs May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges   (bugzilla@redhat.com)
Red Hat has released a fix for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 running on 32-bit architectures.


 Source Message Contents
Date:  Thu, 2 Oct 2008 00:56:17 -0400
Subject:  Linux kernel

 
 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f2455eb176ac87081bbfc9a44
b21c7cd2bc1967e
 
CVE-2008-3525


Go to the Top of This SecurityTracker Archive Page



Home   |    View Topics   |    Search   |    Contact Us   |    Help

Copyright 2007, SecurityGlobal.net LLC