National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3100

Overview

usr/log.c in iscsid in open-iscsi (iscsi-initiator-utils) before 2.0-865 uses a semaphore with insecure permissions (world-writable/world-readable) for managing log messages using shared memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) by grabbing the semaphore.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25679

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25679

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0497

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0497.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/open-iscsi?rev=858&view=rev

Hyperlink:http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/open-iscsi?rev=858&view=rev

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10653

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10653

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 37270

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/37270

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243719

Hyperlink:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243719

External Source: XF

Name: openiscsi-log-dos(34943)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34943

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018246

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018246

External Source: BID

Name: 24471

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24471

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:017

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1314

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1314

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/187174044e1dbe78726bcf840f7530ed.html

Hyperlink:http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/187174044e1dbe78726bcf840f7530ed.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26543

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26543

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26438

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26438

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25749

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25749

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10653

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10653