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On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: > Thanks for the update. Thank goodness I run only 2 bit code! > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Glenn Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just a heads up. >> Those of you who are running Debian, CentOS, RedHat and other systems >> similar. >> There is a pretty big security flaw on the 64 bit side of these systems now >> labeled as >> >> CVE-2010-3081 >> >> In short >> The flaw identified by CVE-2010-3081 (Red Hat Bugzilla bug 634457) describes >> an issue in the 32/64-bit compatibility layer implementation in the Linux >> kernel, versions 2.6.26-rc1 to 2.6.36-rc4. The compat_alloc_user_space() >> function is missing a sanity check on the length argument, and also a check >> to make sure the pointer to the block of memory in user-space that the >> process is attempting to write to is valid. This flaw was addressed via the >> upstream git commit c41d68a5 for the 2.6 Linux kernel. >> This function could be abused in other areas of the Linux kernel if the >> length argument can be controlled from user-space. A known example of this >> is the compat_mc_getsockopt() function for MCAST_MSFILTER that was >> introduced in upstream git commit 42908c69 (v2.6.26-rc1). >> You can easily fix this by implementing the patch located here: >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6. >> As always - if you are stuck -please do not hesitate to contact me offlist - >> while the patch is from 9/19/10 - many wispa's have not patched their >> systems simply because they don't know they needed to. >> As always - when in doubt check the security lists out :-) >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com >> Email: [email protected] >> Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -- > Marco C. Coelho > Argon Technologies Inc. > POB 875 > Greenville, TX 75403-0875 > 903-455-5036 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: [email protected] Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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