Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop up to 4.3 denial of service

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop up to 4.3 (Operating System). This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Linux kernel before 2.6.9-42.0.8 in Red Hat 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS from null dereference) via fput in a 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit x86 systems, an incomplete fix of CVE-2005-3044.1.

The bug was discovered 06/08/2007. The weakness was disclosed 06/08/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at rhn.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-0773 since 02/06/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25575 (CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2007:0488)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 156118 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for Kernel (ELSA-2007-0488)).

Upgrading to version 4.4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (35138) and Tenable (25575). The entries 2751, 2753, 2756 and 35049 are pretty similar.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 25575
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2007:0488)
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OpenVAS ID: 850097
OpenVAS Name: SurgeMail SurgeWeb Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Enterprise Linux Desktop 4.4

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02/06/2007 🔍
05/07/2007 +89 days 🔍
06/08/2007 +32 days 🔍
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06/26/2007 +17 days 🔍
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06/27/2007 +1 days 🔍
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07/31/2007 +30 days 🔍
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03/15/2015 +2783 days 🔍
07/20/2021 +2319 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: rhn.redhat.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-0773 (🔍)
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X-Force: 35138
Vulnerability Center: 15487 - Linux Kernel in RedHat Vulnerability Allows Local Users to Cause DoS, Low
SecurityFocus: 23870
Secunia: 26289
OSVDB: 37128 - Linux Kernel on Red Hat 64-bit x86 fput Local DoS

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Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 07/20/2021 14:36
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (79), 07/21/2019 09:32 (3), 07/20/2021 14:36 (4)
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