Bug 1485346 (CVE-2017-13693)
Summary: | CVE-2017-13693 kernel: ACPI operand cache leak in dsutils.c | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Adam Mariš <amaris> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | agordeev, ahs3+donotuse, airlied, ajax, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dhoward, dnelson, dominik.mierzejewski, eparis, esammons, esandeen, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, jonathan, josef, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, lwang, matt, m.a.young, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mjg59, mlangsdo, nhorman, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, quintela, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, williams, wmealing |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in the kernel's ACPI interpreter when it does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism.
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Last Closed: | 2017-09-15 11:52:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1485355, 1485356, 1488743, 1488744, 1488745, 1488746, 1488750 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1485352 |
Description
Adam Mariš
2017-08-25 12:58:56 UTC
Created acpica-tools tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1485355] Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1485356] Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the moderate severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. |