National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4343

Overview

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/665.html 'CWE-665: Improper Initialization'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182

External Source: MLIST

Name: [linux-scsi] 20100521 [PATCH 1/2] bfa: fix system crash when reading sysfs fc_host statistics

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101209 Re: CVE request: kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/15

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101208 CVE request: kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/3

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

External Source: BID

Name: 45262

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45262

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0017

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46397

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42884

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42884