Bug 1536181 (CVE-2017-13221)

Summary:	CVE-2017-13221 kernel: elevation of privilege (EoP) in the Upstream kernel wifi driver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, ajax, aquini, bhu, blc, bmasney, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, linville, lwang, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, ptalbert, rvrbovsk, security-response-team, skozina, steved, vdronov, walters, williams
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Bug Depends On:	1537199
Bug Blocks:	1536184

Description Laura Pardo 2018-01-18 19:55:25 UTC

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Upstream kernel wifi driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-64709938. 

References:
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-01-22 16:45:35 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1537199]

Comment 5 Vladis Dronov 2018-04-09 07:22:28 UTC

Per discussion, this flaw is related to the following commit, which is apparently specific to the quallcom drivers:

https://github.com/aunali1/kernel_tegra_dragon/commit/7e44cef2c9d45ee9869b454e0bcee025d06b814b

This code is not present in any Red Hat's products, closing this flaw as not-a-bug.