Linux Kernel up to 2.6.36 L2 Guest OS race condition

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 2.6.36 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component L2 Guest OS Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows L2 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (L1 guest OS crash) via a crafted instruction that triggers an L2 emulation failure report, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7842.

The weakness was presented 11/29/2014 with Fujitsu (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-5313 since 11/29/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 82020 (SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 10412 / 10415 / 10416)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 167678 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for Linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0652-1)).

Upgrading to version 2.6.37 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (82020), SecurityFocus (BID 63183†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-47331†). See VDB-10840, VDB-12213, VDB-13142 and VDB-67533 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Nessus ID: 82020
Nessus Name: SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 10412 / 10415 / 10416)
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OpenVAS ID: 80056
OpenVAS Name: Oracle Linux Local Check: ELSA-2015-2152
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Kernel 2.6.37
Patch: fc3a9157d3148ab91039c75423da8ef97be3e105

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: kernel.org

Advisory: fc3a9157d3148ab91039c75423da8ef97be3e105
Organization: Fujitsu
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2010-5313 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-5313
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-73028
SecurityFocus: 63183 - Linux Kernel CVE-2013-4299 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 47331 - Linux Kernel before 2.6.38 Local DoS due to a Race Condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 02:56 PM
Updated: 04/04/2022 05:53 PM
Changes: 03/27/2015 02:56 PM (65), 06/13/2017 08:35 AM (9), 04/04/2022 05:37 PM (5), 04/04/2022 05:45 PM (1), 04/04/2022 05:53 PM (1)
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