Bug 1363702 (CVE-2016-6492) - CVE-2016-6492 kernel: privilege escalation flaw in mediatek driver
Summary: CVE-2016-6492 kernel: privilege escalation flaw in mediatek driver
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-6492
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1363706
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Reported: 2016-08-03 11:56 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-19 14:39:42 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-03 11:56:08 UTC 
A privilege escalation flaw in the kernel mediatek driver's MT6573FDVT_SetRegHW() function was reported:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Aug/0

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539058
Comment 1 Vladislav Dronov 2016-08-19 14:37:30 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2 as the products listed does not contain the code (kernel mediatek driver) with the flaw.
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