Bug 1256746 - CVE-2015-6666 kernel: Linux x86_64 NT flag handling optimization allowing DoS
Summary: CVE-2015-6666 kernel: Linux x86_64 NT flag handling optimization allowing DoS
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
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: 1256753
Blocks: 1256750
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-25 11:40 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-09-26 03:37:19 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-08-25 11:40:33 UTC
After fixing Linux's NT flag handling, an optimization was added, making the code vulnerable.
A malicious 32-bit program might be able to leak NT into an unrelated task.
On a kernel with setting CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, this causes a straightforward DoS. With CONFIG_PREEMPT=n setting,
it's probably still exploitable for DoS with some more care.
This vulnerability could be possibly used also for privilege escalation.

Upstream fix (just reverting the optimization):

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=512255a2ad2c832ca7d4de9f31245f73781922d0

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/430

Can be mitigated by:

CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=n

Mitigation:

(none)

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-08-25 12:03:54 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1256753]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-08-25 12:53:57 UTC
kernel-4.2.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14151

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-08-27 17:57:21 UTC
kernel-4.2.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-09-11 17:21:18 UTC
kernel-4.1.6-201.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Martin Prpič 2015-09-15 07:58:27 UTC
This was found to not have a security impact on any version of the Linux kernel. This CVE may be rejected as per:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/546

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2015-09-21 06:20:36 UTC
CVE-2015-6666 was rejected, removing alias.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-09-23 00:20:20 UTC
kernel-4.1.7-100.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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