Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Issue date: 2009-11-03
CVE Names: CVE-2009-2695 CVE-2009-2908 CVE-2009-3228
CVE-2009-3286 CVE-2009-3547 CVE-2009-3613
CVE-2009-2695 kernel: SELinux and mmap_min_addr
CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak
CVE-2009-3286 kernel: O_EXCL creates on NFSv4 are broken
CVE-2009-2908 kernel ecryptfs NULL pointer dereference
CVE-2009-3613 kernel: flood ping cause out-of-iommu error and panic when
mtu larger than 1500
CVE-2009-3547 kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference
Security fixes:
* a system with SELinux enforced was more permissive in allowing local
users in the unconfined_t domain to map low memory areas even if the
mmap_min_addr restriction was enabled. This could aid in the local
exploitation of NULL pointer dereference bugs. (CVE-2009-2695, Important)
* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the eCryptfs
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this flaw
to cause a local denial of service or escalate their privileges.
(CVE-2009-2908, Important)
* a flaw was found in the NFSv4 implementation. The kernel would do an
unnecessary permission check after creating a file. This check would
usually fail and leave the file with the permission bits set to random
values. Note: This is a server-side only issue. (CVE-2009-3286, Important)
* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in each of the following
functions in the Linux kernel: pipe_read_open(), pipe_write_open(), and
pipe_rdwr_open(). When the mutex lock is not held, the i_pipe pointer
could be released by other processes before it is used to update the
pipe's reader and writer counters. This could lead to a local denial of
service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2009-3547, Important)
* a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux
kernel. pci_unmap_single() presented a memory leak that could lead to
IOMMU space exhaustion and a system crash. An attacker on the local
network could abuse this flaw by using jumbo frames for large amounts of
network traffic. (CVE-2009-3613, Important)
* missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding
data in several core network structures was not initialized properly
before being sent to user-space. These flaws could lead to information
leaks. (CVE-2009-3228, Moderate)
Bug fixes:
* with network bonding in the "balance-tlb" or "balance-alb" mode, the
primary setting for the primary slave device was lost when said device
was brought down. Bringing the slave back up did not restore the primary
setting. (BZ#517971)
* some faulty serial device hardware caused systems running the
kernel-xen kernel to take a very long time to boot. (BZ#524153)
* a caching bug in nfs_readdir() may have caused NFS clients to see
duplicate files or not see all files in a directory. (BZ#526960)
* the RHSA-2009:1243 update removed the mpt_msi_enable option,
preventing certain scripts from running. This update adds the option
back. (BZ#526963)
* an iptables rule with the recent module and a hit count value greater
than the ip_pkt_list_tot parameter (the default is 20), did not have any
effect over packets, as the hit count could not be reached. (BZ#527434)
* a check has been added to the IPv4 code to make sure that rt is not
NULL, to help prevent future bugs in functions that call
ip_append_data() from being exploitable. (BZ#527436)
* a kernel panic occurred in certain conditions after reconfiguring a
tape drive's block size. (BZ#528133)
* when using the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) in a master and backup
configuration, and propagating active connections on the master to the
backup, the connection timeout value on the backup was hard-coded to 180
seconds, meaning connection information on the backup was soon lost.
This could prevent the successful failover of connections. The timeout
value can now be set via "ipvsadm --set". (BZ#528645)
* a bug in nfs4_do_open_expired() could have caused the reclaimer thread
on an NFSv4 client to enter an infinite loop. (BZ#529162)
* MSI interrupts may not have been delivered for r8169 based network
cards that have MSI interrupts enabled. This bug only affected certain
systems. (BZ#529366)
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Note1: Due to the fuse kernel module now being part of the kernel, we
are updating fuse on the older releases to match the fuse that was
released by The Upstream Vendor.
Note2: kernel-module-openafs for SL 50-53 is for openafs 1.4.7, for SL
54 it is for openafs 1.4.11
Note3: xfs is now part of the kernel in x86_64. Because of this there
is no kernel-module-xfs for x86_64.
Note4: ipw3945 support has been changed to iwlwifi3945 in SL 54, and is
in the kernel. Because of this there is no kernel-module-ipw3945 for SL54.
Note5: Support for the Atheros chipset in now in the kernel. We are not
sure if the infrastructure is in place for SL 50-53, so we are still
providing the madwifi kernel modules for SL 50-53.
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.src.rpm
i386:
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686.rpm
Dependancies: (All Versions)
kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-1.55-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
Dependancies: (SL 50-53)
fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-devel-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL.i386.rpm
fuse-sshfs-2.0-1.SL.i386.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.i686.rpm
Dependancies: (SL 54)
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Dependancies: (All Versions)
kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.53-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.53-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
Dependancies: (SL 50-53)
fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
fuse-devel-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-devel-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
fuse-sshfs-2.0-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.x86_64.rpm
Dependancies: (SL 54)
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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