The Debian 'kernel-source-2.2.20' package in Debian 3.0 is missing an update (DSA-514) to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the memory management code, allowing a local root exploit
Source | Link |
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debian | www.debian.org/security/2004/DSA-514 |
security-tracker | www.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-514 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53205");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0077");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 21:45:44 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_version("2024-02-01T14:37:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-01 14:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 01 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-514)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.0");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-514");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2004/DSA-514");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-514");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'kernel-source-2.2.20' package(s) announced via the DSA-514 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap(2) system call. Due to flushing the TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer, an address cache) too early it is possible for an attacker to trigger a local root exploit.
The attack vectors for 2.4.x and 2.2.x kernels are exclusive for the respective kernel series, though. We formerly believed that the exploitable vulnerability in 2.4.x does not exist in 2.2.x which is still true. However, it turned out that a second (sort of) vulnerability is indeed exploitable in 2.2.x, but not in 2.4.x, with a different exploit, of course.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 9woody1 of Linux 2.2 kernel images for the sparc architecture and in version 2.2.20-5woody3 of Linux 2.2.20 source.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 9.1 of Linux 2.2 kernel images for the sparc architecture.
This problem has been fixed for other architectures already.
We recommend that you upgrade your Linux kernel package.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'kernel-source-2.2.20' package(s) on Debian 3.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB3.0") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"kernel-doc-2.2.20", ver:"2.2.20-5woody3", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"kernel-source-2.2.20", ver:"2.2.20-5woody3", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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