National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0003
Original release date:01/26/2010
Last revised:03/19/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The print_fatal_signal function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.4 on the i386 platform, when print-fatal-signals is enabled, allows local users to discover the contents of arbitrary memory locations by jumping to an address and then reading a log file, and might allow local users to cause a denial of service (system slowdown or crash) by jumping to an address.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
7.8
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (03/17/2010)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-0003.
This issue has been rated as having moderate security impact.
A future update in Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this flaw. This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0146.html and https://rhn.redh
at.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0147.html respectively.
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 criti
cal impact are addressed.
For further information about Errata Support Policy, visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0146
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554578
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
External Source: BID
Name: 37724
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110211 VMSA-2011-0003 Third party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESX
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0161
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0147
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100113 Re: CVE request - kernel: infoleak if print-fatal-signals=1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100112 CVE request - kernel: infoleak if print-fatal-signals=1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2005
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1996
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43315
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39033
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38779
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38492
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38333
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69752/
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10550
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:014
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:012
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:010
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-0919
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b45c6e76bc2c72f6426c14bed64fdcbc9bf37cb0
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10550
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
