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ELSA-2008-0508 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2008-0508 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/14/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

The asn1 implementation in (a) the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.6 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.5, as used in the cifs and ip_nat_snmp_basic modules; and (b) the gxsnmp package; does not properly validate length values during decoding of ASN.1 BER data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) a length greater than the working buffer, which can lead to an unspecified overflow; (2) an oid length of zero, which can lead to an off-by-one error; or (3) an indefinite length for a primitive encoding.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xenu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xenu-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

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