Bug 1419916 (CVE-2017-2618)

Summary:	CVE-2017-2618 kernel: Off-by-one error in selinux_setprocattr (/proc/self/attr/fscreate)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	apevec, aquini, ayoung, bhu, bkearney, cbillett, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, dhoward, dominik.mierzejewski, dwalsh, fhrbata, iboverma, jjoyce, jkacur, jross, jschluet, kbasil, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lhh, lpeer, lvrabec, markmc, matt, mcressma, mmalik, nmurray, pholasek, plautrba, plougher, rbryant, rvrbovsk, sclewis, security-response-team, slawomir, ssekidde, tdecacqu, tomckay, williams, wmealing
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:07:09 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1422368, 1422369, 1422370, 1422371, 1422372, 1422373, 1422717
Bug Blocks:	1419918

Description Adam Mariš 2017-02-07 11:59:42 UTC

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files.  An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.

This may lead to local DoS by panicing the system.

Proposed patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125

https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2

Comment 2 Paul Moore 2017-02-07 12:59:47 UTC

To be clear, the problem is not with libselinux but the kernel itself (see the proposed patch in the original problem description).

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-02-07 13:08:12 UTC

(In reply to Paul Moore from comment #2)
> To be clear, the problem is not with libselinux but the kernel itself (see
> the proposed patch in the original problem description).

Ah, sorry, my fault. Fixed!

Comment 6 Wade Mealing 2017-02-15 06:39:47 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 due to a missing commit ( bb646cdb12e75d82258c2f2e7746d5952d3e321a ) which enabled changed system behavior.

This issue does affect Red Hat Enteprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 kernels. A future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue.

Comment 7 Wade Mealing 2017-02-15 06:41:23 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Name: Paul Moore (Red Hat Engineering)

Comment 12 Wade Mealing 2017-02-16 01:15:32 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1422717]

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-12 10:53:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

Via RHSA-2017:0932 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-12 10:56:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0931 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-12 13:35:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0933 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933