CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
86.3%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0326
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
Security fixes:
memory leaks were found on some error paths in the icmp_send()
function in the Linux kernel. This could, potentially, cause the network
connectivity to cease. (CVE-2009-0778, Important)
Chris Evans reported a deficiency in the clone() system call when called
with the CLONE_PARENT flag. This flaw permits the caller (the parent
process) to indicate an arbitrary signal it wants to receive when its child
process exits. This could lead to a denial of service of the parent
process. (CVE-2009-0028, Moderate)
an off-by-one underflow flaw was found in the eCryptfs subsystem. This
could potentially cause a local denial of service when the readlink()
function returned an error. (CVE-2009-0269, Moderate)
a deficiency was found in the Remote BIOS Update (RBU) driver for Dell
systems. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of
service by reading zero bytes from the image_type or packet_size files in
“/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/”. (CVE-2009-0322, Moderate)
an inverted logic flaw was found in the SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter
driver, allowing driver statistics to be reset only when the CAP_NET_ADMIN
capability was absent (local, unprivileged users could reset driver
statistics). (CVE-2009-0675, Moderate)
the sock_getsockopt() function in the Linux kernel did not properly
initialize a data structure that can be directly returned to user-space
when the getsockopt() function is called with SO_BSDCOMPAT optname set.
This flaw could possibly lead to memory disclosure.
(CVE-2009-0676, Moderate)
the ext2 and ext3 file system code failed to properly handle corrupted
data structures, leading to a possible local denial of service when read
or write operations were performed on a specially-crafted file system.
(CVE-2008-3528, Low)
a deficiency was found in the libATA implementation. This could,
potentially, lead to a local denial of service. Note: by default, the
“/dev/sg*” devices are accessible only to the root user.
(CVE-2008-5700, Low)
Bug fixes:
a bug in aic94xx may have caused kernel panics during boot on some
systems with certain SATA disks. (BZ#485909)
a word endianness problem in the qla2xx driver on PowerPC-based machines
may have corrupted flash-based devices. (BZ#485908)
a memory leak in pipe() may have caused a system deadlock. The workaround
in Section 1.5, Known Issues, of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release
Notes Updates, which involved manually allocating extra file descriptors to
processes calling do_pipe, is no longer necessary. (BZ#481576)
CPU soft-lockups in the network rate estimator. (BZ#481746)
bugs in the ixgbe driver caused it to function unreliably on some
systems with 16 or more CPU cores. (BZ#483210)
the iwl4965 driver may have caused a kernel panic. (BZ#483206)
a bug caused NFS attributes to not update for some long-lived NFS
mounted file systems. (BZ#483201)
unmounting a GFS2 file system may have caused a panic. (BZ#485910)
a bug in ptrace() may have caused a panic when single stepping a target.
(BZ#487394)
on some 64-bit systems, notsc was incorrectly set at boot, causing slow
gettimeofday() calls. (BZ#488239)
do_machine_check() cleared all Machine Check Exception (MCE) status
registers, preventing the BIOS from using them to determine the cause of
certain panics and errors. (BZ#490433)
scaling problems caused performance problems for LAPI applications.
(BZ#489457)
a panic may have occurred on systems using certain Intel WiFi Link 5000
products when booting with the RF Kill switch on. (BZ#489846)
the TSC is invariant with C/P/T states, and always runs at constant
frequency from now on. (BZ#489310)
All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for
this update to take effect.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/077874.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/077875.html
Affected packages:
kernel
kernel-PAE
kernel-PAE-debuginfo
kernel-PAE-devel
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-debuginfo
kernel-debug-devel
kernel-debuginfo
kernel-debuginfo-common
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-headers
kernel-xen
kernel-xen-debuginfo
kernel-xen-devel
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0326
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-debug | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-debug-debuginfo | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-debug-devel | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-debuginfo | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-debuginfo-common | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-devel | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | noarch | kernel-doc | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.noarch.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | kernel-headers | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i686 | kernel-pae | < 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 | kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm |