CVE-2008-3525

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 3, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 7, 2008

Description

The sbni_ioctl function in drivers/net/wan/sbni.c in the wan subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.3 does not check for the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability before processing a (1) SIOCDEVRESINSTATS, (2) SIOCDEVSHWSTATE, (3) SIOCDEVENSLAVE, or (4) SIOCDEVEMANSIPATE ioctl request, which allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

SUSE-SA:2008:047vendor-advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2455eb176ac87081bbfc9a44b21c7cd2bc1967e
ADV-2008-2714vdb-entry
DSA-1655vendor-advisory
32393third-party-advisory
32237third-party-advisory
[oss-security] 20080829 CVE-2008-3525 kernel: missing capability checks in sbni_ioctl()mailing-list
MDVSA-2008:223vendor-advisory
SUSE-SA:2008:052vendor-advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.7
USN-659-1vendor-advisory
SUSE-SA:2008:053vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2008-8929vendor-advisory
32103third-party-advisory
33280third-party-advisory
DSA-1653vendor-advisory
32356third-party-advisory
32759third-party-advisory
MDVSA-2008:220vendor-advisory
1020969vdb-entry
ADV-2008-2511vdb-entry
32370third-party-advisory
RHSA-2008:0973vendor-advisory
RHSA-2008:0787vendor-advisory
SUSE-SA:2008:051vendor-advisory
32386third-party-advisory
FEDORA-2008-8980vendor-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9364vdb-entrysignature
SUSE-SA:2008:049vendor-advisory
SUSE-SR:2008:025vendor-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5671vdb-entrysignature
33201third-party-advisory
32315third-party-advisory

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