Upstream information

CVE-2010-4171 at MITRE

Description

The staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not verify that a module to unload was previously loaded by SystemTap, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (unloading of arbitrary kernel modules).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  SUSE
Base Score 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3

Note from the SUSE Security Team

We are not shipping staprun setuid root on our products, so we are not affected by this problem.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1085472 [RESOLVED / INVALID], 654201 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL systemtap Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 systemtap Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 systemtap Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 systemtap Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 systemtap Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 systemtap Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:55:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 18:32:10 2023