Bug 1442086 (CVE-2017-7472)
| Summary: | CVE-2017-7472 kernel: keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() leaks thread keyrings | ||
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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: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, dominik.mierzejewski, fhrbata, gansalmon, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, khorenko, labbott, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, vdronov, williams, yozone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel where the keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() function leaks the thread keyring. This allows an unprivileged local user to exhaust kernel memory and thus cause a DoS.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 03:10:33 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: | 1442093, 1450157, 1450158, 1450159, 1450160, 1466457, 1479727, 1479728 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1442089 | ||
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Description
Andrej Nemec
2017-04-13 13:27:57 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1442093] Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as the code with the flaw is not present in this product. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue. This was fixed in the 4.10.13 stable release that was pushed to all stable Fedora releases on 2017-05-07. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:0151 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:0152 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 Via RHSA-2018:0181 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181 |