National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3525
Original release date:09/03/2008
Last revised:02/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The sbni_ioctl function in drivers/net/wan/sbni.c in the wan subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.3 does not check for the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability before processing a (1) SIOCDEVRESINSTATS, (2) SIOCDEVSHWSTATE, (3) SIOCDEVENSLAVE, or (4) SIOCDEVEMANSIPATE ioctl request, which allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8929
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8980
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-659-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020969
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0973
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0787
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080829 CVE-2008-3525 kernel: missing capability checks in sbni_ioctl()
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:223
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:220
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.7
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2714
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2511
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1655
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1653
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33280
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33201
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32759
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32393
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32386
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32237
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32103
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:025
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:053
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:049
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:047
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f2455eb176ac87081bbfc9a44b21c7cd2bc1967e