National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3831
Original release date:10/20/2008
Last revised:03/03/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 31792
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8929
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8980
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-679-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-659-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081112 rPSA-2008-0316-1 kernel
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0009
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1017
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c.diff?r1=1.7;r2=1.8
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:224
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1655
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0316
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0316
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 245846
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021065
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6.24/linux-2.6.24_2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.6.diff.gz
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33586
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33182
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32918
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32709
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32386
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [source-changes] 20081017 CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src