Bug 1401502 (CVE-2016-9806)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9806 kernel: netlink: double-free in netlink_dump
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aquini, arm-mgr, bhu, chorn, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, pabeni, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, vdronov, williams
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened, Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A double free vulnerability was found in netlink_dump, which could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified impact. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is unlikely.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:03:01 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1406839, 1414291, 1414293, 1414294
Bug Blocks:	1401504

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-12-05 12:56:39 UTC

A double free vulnerability was found in netlink_dump, which could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified impact.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/577

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2016/05/15/69

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=92964c79b357efd980812c4de5c1fd2ec8bb5520

Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2016-12-21 15:33:07 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed.

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

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:10:52 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2077 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 07:50:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-06 20:39:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

Via RHSA-2017:2669 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669