Bug 1161565 (CVE-2014-7825, CVE-2014-7826)
| Summary: | CVE-2014-7825 CVE-2014-7826 kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Petr Matousek <pmatouse> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally, an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel's ftrace subsystem. On a system with ftrace syscall tracing enabled, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system, or escalate their privileges.
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| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:35:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1161567, 1161568, 1161569, 1161570, 1161571, 1161572 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1160107 | ||
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Description
Petr Matousek
2014-11-07 11:05:10 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1161572] Statement CVE-2014-7825: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. Statement CVE-2014-7826: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. Note that the impact on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 is limited to local denial of service. Privilege escalation is not possible. kernel-3.17.3-300.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.17.3-200.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2014:1943 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1943.html kernel-3.14.27-100.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:0290 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:0864 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html |