Bug 132748 (CVE-2005-3276)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2005-3276: kernel: local memory leakage in sys_get_thread_area
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Marcus Meissner <meissner>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Olaf Kirch <okir>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:	CVE-2005-3276: CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	the patch

Description Marcus Meissner 2005-11-08 16:44:36 UTC

CVE-2005-3276

The sys_get_thread_area function in process.c in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13 does not clear a data structure before copying it to userspace, which might allow a user process to obtain sensitive information. 

CONFIRM:http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@42e81864gSEM90Oun0jA8dufpM3inw 
CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=71ae18ec690953e9ba7107c7cc44589c2cc0d9f1 
CONFIRM:http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/3/36

Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-09 08:58:26 UTC

I think these info leak issues are really lame. This is your local kernel
stack you're leaking data from - so your chances are really really slim
to find anything useful there.

Comment 2 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-09 09:06:37 UTC

Created attachment 56746 [details]
the patch

Comment 3 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-11 14:25:14 UTC

Marcus, please let me know if you really think this is a must-have.
I think it's a WONTFIX, but if you want it fixed we can do it of course.
It's not a very complex patch :)

Comment 4 Marcus Meissner 2005-11-11 14:45:56 UTC

yes. i agree. near impossible to exploit too.

Comment 5 Thomas Biege 2009-10-13 20:33:33 UTC

CVE-2005-3276: CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)