A weakness was found in the Linux ASLR implementation. Any user able to running 32-bit applications in a x86 machine can disable the ASLR by setting the RLIMIT_STACK resource to unlimited. External references: http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-3672-Unlimiting-the-stack-not-longer-disables-ASLR.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/34 Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1324750]
Statement: This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6. This has been rated as having Low 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/. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.
kernel-4.5.1-300.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kernel-4.4.7-300.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kernel-4.4.8-200.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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