CVE-2010-0307

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2010-01-28
IAVA:
2011-A-0066
Bugzilla:
560547: CVE-2010-0307 kernel: DoS on x86_64

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The load_elf_binary function in fs/binfmt_elf.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 on the x86_64 platform does not ensure that the ELF interpreter is available before a call to the SET_PERSONALITY macro, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a 32-bit application that attempts to execute a 64-bit application and then triggers a segmentation fault, as demonstrated by amd64_killer, related to the flush_old_exec function.

Find out more about CVE-2010-0307 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-0307.

This issue has been rated as having moderate security impact.

This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0146.html. Future updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this flaw.

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, due to this product being in Production 3 of its maintenance life-cycle, where only qualified security errata of important or critical impact are addressed.

For further information about Errata Support Policy, visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2010:0146 2010-03-17
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2010:0771 2010-10-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2010:0398 2010-05-06

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Mathias Krause for reporting this issue.

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