Security Advisory SA34475 - SystemTap Module Loading Race Condition Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA34475

SystemTap Module Loading Race Condition Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA34475

Release Date

2009-03-26

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

SystemTap 0.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-0784 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in SystemTap, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to a race condition while checking and loading certain kernel modules, which can be exploited by e.g. symlinking to valid kernel modules during the time of check and replacing it with a symlink to a malicious kernel module before it's loaded.

Successful exploitation allows to e.g. gain "stapdev" group or "root" privileges, but requires membership of the "stapusr" group and that the "/lib/modules/$VERSION/systemtap" directory exists.

Solution
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Erik Sjoelund

Original Advisory
DSA-1755-1:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00065.html

Red Hat Bug #489808:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489808

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