SB2022090204 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Netezza Host Management
Published: September 2, 2022 Updated: August 9, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3347)
The vulnerability allows a local user to elevate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when handling PI futexes. A local user can run a specially crafted program to trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27365)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing Netlink messages in Linux kernel through 5.11.3, as certain iSCSI data structures do not have appropriate length constraints or checks, and can exceed the PAGE_SIZE value. A local unprivileged user can send a Netlink message that is associated with iSCSI, and has a length up to the maximum length of a Netlink message, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27364)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to iscsi_if_recv_msg() allows non-root users to connect and send commands to the Linux kernel. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20265)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the unix_stream_recvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Improper locking (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29661)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to locking error in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c. An local user can exploit this vulnerability to trigger a use-after-free error against TIOCSPGRP and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
6) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33909)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during size_t-to-int conversion when creating, mounting, and deleting a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB. An unprivileged local user can write up to 10-byte string to an offset of exactly -2GB-10B below the beginning of a vmalloc()ated kernel buffer.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to exploit the our-of-bounds write vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-publicly-disclosed-vulnerabilities-from-kernel-affect-ibm-netezza-host-management-13/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-publicly-disclosed-vulnerabilities-from-kernel-affect-ibm-netezza-host-management-13/</a><br>
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6490825<br><br></p>