National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-2731
Original release date:12/31/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple integer overflows in Sbus PROM driver (drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c) for the Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, 2.6.x up to 2.6.7, and possibly later versions, allow local users to execute arbitrary code by specifying (1) a small buffer size to the copyin_string function or (2) a negative buffer size to the copyin function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/09/2007)
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Not vulnerable. The Linux kernel as shipped with with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 and 5 did not include the Sbus PROM module and therefore are not affected by this issue.
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External Source: BID
Name: 10632
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5GP0515DFW.html
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 8363
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 7345
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1010617
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 11981
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040629 linux kernel Sbus PROM driver multiple integer overflows
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1503
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29058