Bug 1353490 (CVE-2016-6156) - CVE-2016-6156 kernel: Race condition vulnerability in Chrome driver
Summary: CVE-2016-6156 kernel: Race condition vulnerability in Chrome driver
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-6156
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1353491 1362383 1362384
Blocks: 1353492
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-07 09:26 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-10-21 00:53 UTC (History)
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A timing flaw was found in the Chrome EC driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could abuse timing to skip validation checks to copy additional data from userspace possibly increasing privilege or crashing the system.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:53:55 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-07-07 09:26:00 UTC
Double-fetch vulnerability was found in /drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Chrome driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1.

In function ec_device_ioctl_xcmd(), the driver fetches user space data by pointer arg via copy_from_user(), and this happens twice at line 137 and line 145 respectively.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e

Bugtraq post:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/20

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-07-07 09:26:51 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1353491]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-07-19 22:19:40 UTC
kernel-4.6.4-201.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-07-20 00:22:19 UTC
kernel-4.6.4-301.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Wade Mealing 2016-08-01 10:01:16 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux products as they have not included this feature in any shipping products.


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