Bug 1334643 (CVE-2016-4569)
| Summary: | CVE-2016-4569 kernel: Information leak in Linux sound module in timer.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Andrej Nemec <anemec> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, arm-mgr, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kstutsma, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, vdronov, 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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A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel. There is an information leak in file "sound/core/timer.c" of the latest mainline Linux kernel, the stack object “tread” has a total size of 32 bytes. It contains a 8-bytes padding, which is not initialized but sent to user via copy_to_user(), resulting a kernel leak.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:51:32 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: | 1288993, 1334645, 1343107 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1332934 | ||
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Description
Andrej Nemec
2016-05-10 08:31:14 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1334645] Fixes: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5 (In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #2) > Fixes: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for- > next&id=cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e CVE-2016-4569 is for this issue only > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for- > next&id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for- > next&id=e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5 These two issues received CVE-2016-4578 today via: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/316 I will create a new flaw without trackers for fedora. kernel-4.5.4-300.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-4.4.10-200.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-4.5.5-201.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Statement: This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. 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 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html |