Linux kernel SG driver denial of service
| kernel-sg-dos (28510) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Linux kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by an unspecified vulnerability in the SG driver (drivers/scsi/sg.c) when handling dio transfers to memory mapped IO spaces. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a kernel panic and a denial of service condition for valid users.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 3.5 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 2.6 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Linux Kernel (version 2.4.33.1 or later), available from the Linux Kernel Web site. See References.
For Ubuntu Linux:
Refer to Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-302-1 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Red Hat Linux:
Refer to RHSA-2006:0493 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
For SUSE Linux:
Refer to SUSE Security Announcement SUSE-SA:2006:042 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
For SUSE Linux:
Refer to SUSE-SA:2006:047 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Mandriva Linux:
Refer to Mandriva Advisorie MDKSA-2006:123 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Debian GNU/Linux:
Refer to DSA-1183-1 or DSA-1184-1 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
References:
- IBM Systems Support Web site: Support for HMC.
- The Linux Kernel Archives: ChangeLog-2.4.33.1.
- ASA-2006-161: kernel security update (RHSA-2006-0493)
- BID-18101: Linux Kernel SG Driver Direct IO Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-1528: Linux kernel before 2.6.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a dio transfer from the sg driver to memory mapped (mmap) IO space.
- DSA-1183: kernel-source-2.4.27 -- several vulnerabilities
- DSA-1184: kernel-source-2.6.8 -- several vulnerabilities
- MDKSA-2006:123: Updated kernel packages fixes multiple vulnerabilities
- RHSA-2006-0493: kernel security update
- SA21555: Linux Kernel SG Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability
- SA21745: Avaya Products Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SUSE-SA:2006:042: kernel local privilege escalation
- SUSE-SA:2006:047: kernel security problems
- USN-302-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-3330: Linux Kernel SG Driver IO Transfers Handling and PPC970 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Canonical Ubuntu 5.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 5.10
- Canonical Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Debian Debian Linux 3.1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test8
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test7
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test10
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test11
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test9
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0 test5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0
- Linux Kernel 2.6.1 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.1 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.1 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.10 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.10 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.10 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.10
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 rc5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.10
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.11
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.12
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.7
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.8
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11.9
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.12
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.22
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.12.6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc7
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.13 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.2 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.2 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.2 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.3 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.3 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.3 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.3 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.4 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.4 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.4 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.5 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.5 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.5 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.5
- Linux Kernel 2.6.6 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.6 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.6 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.6
- Linux Kernel 2.6.7 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.7 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.7 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.7
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8.1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9 rc2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9 rc3
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9 rc4
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9 rc1
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9
- Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.2
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2006 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2006
- Novell Linux Desktop 9
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
- SUSE SuSE Linux 10.0
- SUSE SuSE Linux 10.1
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.1
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.2
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.3
- SuSE SuSE SLES 9
Reported:
Aug 19, 2006
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