National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3911
Original release date:09/04/2008
Last revised:11/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The proc_do_xprt function in net/sunrpc/sysctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.3 does not check the length of a certain buffer obtained from userspace, which allows local users to overflow a stack-based buffer and have unspecified other impact via a crafted read system call for the /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports file.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/05/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 or Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
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External Source: XF
Name: linux-kernel-procdoxprt-bo(45136)
External Source: BID
Name: 31937
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080904 CVE request: kernel: sunrpc: fix possible overrun on read of /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20080830 Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20080830 buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:053
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=27df6f25ff218072e0e879a96beeb398a79cdbc8