SB2005093006 - Resource management errors in Linux kernel
Published: September 30, 2005
Security Bulletin ID
SB2005093006
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management errors (CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3108)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform service disruption.
mm/ioremap.c in Linux 2.6 on 64-bit x86 systems allows local users to cause a denial of service or an information leak via an ioremap on a certain memory map that causes the iounmap to perform a lookup of a page that does not exist.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17141
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17364
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93ef70a217637ade3f335303a112b22a134a1ec2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11322