National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1265
Original release date:04/08/2009
Last revised:06/23/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in rose_sendmsg (sys/net/af_rose.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, and other versions before 2.6.30-rc1, might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a large length value, which causes "garbage" memory to be sent.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/17/2009)
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This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 4, 5, or Red Hat Enterprise MRG, as the affected driver is not enabled in these kernels.
The affected driver is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, but only if the kernel-unsupported package is installed.
This issue has been rated as having moderate security impact as it does not lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. As Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is now in Production 3 of its maintenance life-cycle, http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata, and the affected driver can only be enabled when using the unsupported kernel-unsupported package, a fix for this issue is not currently planned to be included in the future updates.
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External Source: BID
Name: 34654
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090408 CVE-2009-1265 kernel: af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:135
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:119
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1800
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1794
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1787
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35394
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35390
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35387
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35185
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35121
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35011
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34981
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53631
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53630
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53571
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:032
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:031
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:030
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:028
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=83e0bbcbe2145f160fbaa109b0439dae7f4a38a9
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10423
