Bug 1333830 (CVE-2015-3288)

Summary:	CVE-2015-3288 kernel: zero page memory arbitrary modification
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vladis Dronov <vdronov>
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, arm-mgr, bhu, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kstutsma, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mmilgram, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams, yozone
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-05-06 14:02:46 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1261582, 1343127
Bug Blocks:	1242013

Description Vladis Dronov 2016-05-06 13:49:56 UTC

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel that
there is a way to arbitrary change zero page memory. Zero page is a page
which kernel maps into virtual address space on read page fault if the
page was not allocated before. Kernel has one zero page which used
everywhere. Programs that map 0 page are affected and code execution can
be gained. Upon running the exploit the system may become unusable as the
linker memory pages gets tainted. Furthermore, if the right code is put
in the 0 page, code execution is possible.

Comment 1 Vladis Dronov 2016-05-06 13:50:23 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Kirill A. Shutemov (Intel)

Comment 2 Vladis Dronov 2016-05-06 13:52:09 UTC

Upstream patch:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6b7339f4c31ad69c8e9c0b2859276e22cf72176d

Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2016-05-06 13:55:24 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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/.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.