Whamcloud Community JIRA

[LU-9323] kernel update [RHEL7.3 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7]

Related — Thu, 25 May 2017 14:43:09 +0000

Security Fix(es):

A race condition flaw was found in the N_HLDC Linux kernel driver when
accessing n_hdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged
user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw
to increase their privileges on the system. (CVE-2017-2636, Important)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel key management subsystem in which a local
attacker could crash the kernel or corrupt the stack and additional memory
(denial of service) by supplying a specially crafted RSA key. This flaw panics
the machine during the verification of the RSA key. (CVE-2016-8650, Moderate)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of setsockopt for the
SO_ {SND|RCV}BUFFORCE setsockopt() system call. Users with non-namespace
CAP_NET_ADMIN are able to trigger this call and create a situation in which the
sockets sendbuff data size could be negative. This could adversely affect memory
allocations and create situations where the system could crash or cause memory
corruption. (CVE-2016-9793, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes
on /proc/pid/attr files. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system
by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.
(CVE-2017-2618, Moderate)

Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1395187 - CVE-2016-8650 kernel: Null pointer dereference via keyctl
1402013 - CVE-2016-9793 kernel: Signed overflow for SO_{SND|RCV}
BUFFORCE
1419916 - CVE-2017-2618 kernel: Off-by-one error in selinux_setprocattr (/proc/self/attr/fscreate)
1428319 - CVE-2017-2636 kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()