SB2022090204 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Netezza Host Management



SB2022090204 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Netezza Host Management

Published: September 2, 2022 Updated: August 9, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2022090204
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 6
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

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.