Bug 1250030 (CVE-2015-5707) - CVE-2015-5707 kernel: number wraparound vulnerability in function start_req()
Summary: CVE-2015-5707 kernel: number wraparound vulnerability in function start_req()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-5707
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1250034 1293521
Blocks: 1250036
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Reported: 2015-08-04 11:45 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-10-21 00:47 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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An integer-overflow vulnerability was found in the scsi block-request handling code in function start_req(). A local attacker could use specially crafted IOV requests to overflow a counter used in bio_map_user_iov()'s page calculation, and write past the end of the array that contains kernel-page pointers.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:47:25 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 11:45:20 UTC 
This bug, which was probably introduced in Linux 2.6.28, was assigned CVE.
In drivers/scsi/sg.c in function start_req(), there was code segment vulnerable to number wraparound in the calculation of total number of pages in bio_map_user_iov().
This can result to allocating small array of pointers to pages that would be overflowed. It was fixed in Linux 4.1-rc1.

CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/278

Upstream patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583ee
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 11:55:22 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1250034]
Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2015-12-22 01:27:17 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 MRG-2 and realtime kernels and does not plan be addressed in a future update.
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