Bug 1415125

Summary:	CVE-2016-9644 kernel: Incorrect fix for CVE-2016-9178 [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vladislav Dronov <vdronov>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	25	CC:	cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, labbott, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2017-01-20 21:56:08 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1399528

Description Vladislav Dronov 2017-01-20 10:51:28 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions at
the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each other,
you may clone this bug as appropriate.

Reproducers, if any, will remain confidential and never be made public, unless done so by the security team.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Vladislav Dronov 2017-01-20 10:51:42 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

=====

# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1399528,1415125

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for CVE-2016-9644

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

======

Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Vladislav Dronov 2017-01-20 10:55:42 UTC

Fix for CVE-2016-9178 in bz1391910 is incorrect without the fix of CVE-2016-9644. please, add this also. please, see related:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/353

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=548acf19234dbda5a52d5a8e7e205af46e9da840

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9644

Comment 4 Justin M. Forbes 2017-01-20 21:56:08 UTC

This patch has been in Fedora since before Fedora 24 hit alpha, currently supported Fedora releases have never been vulnerable.