Title: Multiple Vendor Linux klogd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
It is possible to cause a denial of service (remote and local) through generating old, obscure kernel messages (not terminated with \n) in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is possible to gain local root access through stuffing shellcode into printk() messages which contain user-controllable variables (eg, filenames). What makes this problem strange, however, is that it was fixed two years ago. Two of the most mainstream linux distributions (Slackware Linux and RedHat Linux), up until recently, are known to have been shipping with the very old vulnerable version. Fixes and updates were released promptly. There is no data on other distributions.
Affected Products:
- RedHat Linux 5.0.0
- RedHat Linux 5.1.0
- RedHat Linux 5.2.0 i386
- Slackware Linux 3.1.0
- Slackware Linux 3.2.0
- Slackware Linux 3.3.0
- Slackware Linux 3.4.0
- Slackware Linux 3.5.0
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