PT-2014-2148 · Red Hat · Kexec-Tools+1

Kevan Carstensen · Published 2011-12-05 · Updated 2014-03-06 · CVE-2011-3589

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.7

Medium

Base vector

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kexec-tools versions 1.x before 1.102pre-154 kexec-tools versions 2.x before 2.0.0-209

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the content of vmcore files, which are created with world-readable permissions by the Red Hat mkdumprd script. This could potentially be used to find sensitive data, such as a root SSH key.

Recommendations For kexec-tools versions 1.x before 1.102pre-154, update to version 1.102pre-154 or later to resolve the issue. For kexec-tools versions 2.x before 2.0.0-209, update to version 2.0.0-209 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3589

RHSA-2011:1532

RHSA-2011_1532

RHSA-2012:0152

RHSA-2012_0152

Affected Products

Red Hat

Kexec-Tools

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3589 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716439 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-1532.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0152.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3589 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3588 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0152 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1532 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3590 · Note