Bug 1173580 (CVE-2014-8709)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8709 kernel: net: mac80211: plain text information leak
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, aquini, bhu, ccoleman, dhoward, dmcphers, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jialiu, joelsmith, jokerman, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kseifried, lmeyer, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mmccomas, mmcgrath, mrg-program-list, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, ppandit, rvrbovsk, williams
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An information leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's IEEE 802.11 wireless networking implementation. When software encryption was used, a remote attacker could use this flaw to leak up to 8 bytes of plaintext.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-07-22 19:30:58 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1136324, 1173618, 1173704
Bug Blocks:	1161357

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-12-12 13:02:47 UTC

Linux kernel built with the Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack(CONFIG_MAC80211)(WLAN) support is vulnerable to an information leakage flaw. It occurs when fragmentation along with software encryption is enabled.

This flaw could be used to leak up to 8 kernel memory bytes.

Upstream fix:
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  -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/338f977f4eb441e69bb9a46eaa0ac715c931a67f

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/06/7

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2014-12-12 14:04:53 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

This issue affects the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2014-12-12 17:48:39 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue has been rated as having Low security impact and is currently not planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle:

  -> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:03:20 UTC

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

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 08:35:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1272 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html