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Bug 1363702 - (CVE-2016-6492) CVE-2016-6492 kernel: privilege escalation flaw in mediatek driver
CVE-2016-6492 kernel: privilege escalation flaw in mediatek driver
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1363706
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Reported: 2016-08-03 07:56 EDT by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2016-08-19 10:39 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-03 07:56:08 EDT 
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 Vladis Dronov 2016-08-19 10:37:30 EDT 
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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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