Bug 1450028 (CVE-2017-0605)

Summary: CVE-2017-0605 kernel: Stack corruption due to string copy
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, aquini, bhu, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-05-11 12:13:02 UTC
Potential buffer overflow vulnerability in kernel trace subsystem in __trace_find_cmdline function was found that could cause stack corruption leading to kernel panic.

Patch:

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2161ae9a70b12cf18ac8e5952a20161ffbccb477

Later analysis showed this is not a security issue, see:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149382004318095&w=2