Bug 1363702 (CVE-2016-6492)

Summary:	CVE-2016-6492 kernel: privilege escalation flaw in mediatek driver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
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, labbott, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, vdronov, williams
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-03 11:56:08 UTC

A privilege escalation flaw in the kernel mediatek driver's MT6573FDVT_SetRegHW() function was reported:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Aug/0

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539058

Comment 1 Vladis Dronov 2016-08-19 14:37:30 UTC

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This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2 as the products listed does not contain the code (kernel mediatek driver) with the flaw.