Bug 1525218 (CVE-2017-15127)
| Summary: | CVE-2017-15127 kernel: Improper error handling of VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping in mm/hugetlb.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Pedro Sampaio <psampaio> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | agordeev, airlied, ajax, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dhoward, esammons, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, lwang, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, skozina, slawomir, steved, vdronov, williams, wmealing, 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 flaw was found in the Linux kernel when freeing pages in hugetlbfs. This could trigger a local denial of service by crashing the kernel.
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| Last Closed: | 2018-01-29 02:36:14 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: | 1536998, 1536999, 1537000, 1545040 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1518303 | ||
Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 and kernel-alt. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, MRG-2 and kernel-rt prior to version kernel-3.10.0-781. Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1545040] This was fixed for Fedora with the 4.13 rebases. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:0676 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:1062 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062 |
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel where an additional implicit page unlock for VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping could trigger local denial of service by crashing the kernel with the message: page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page)) kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:964! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 22582 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 RIP: unlock_page+0x4a/0x50 Call Trace: hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte+0xc0/0x320 mcopy_atomic+0x96f/0xbe0 userfaultfd_ioctl+0x218/0xe90 do_vfs_ioctl+0xa5/0x600 SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa9 References: https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=150169274317930 An upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995