Bug 1205242 (CVE-2015-2686)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2686 kernel: sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom does not validate the user provided ubuf pointer
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, aquini, bhu, ccoleman, dhoward, dmcphers, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, haliu, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jialiu, joelsmith, jokerman, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kseifried, kstutsma, lmeyer, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mmccomas, mrg-program-list, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, rvrbovsk, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1205244, Engineering1206816, Engineering1206817
Bug Blocks:	Embargoed1205243

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-24 13:57:03 UTC

Following commit fixes a potential kernel arbitrary memory read/write:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=4de930efc23b92ddf88ce91c405ee645fe6e27ea

CVE was assigned to this here: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/977

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-24 13:59:56 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205244]

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2015-03-28 20:29:04 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Entereprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.