Bug 1388821 (CVE-2016-8646) - CVE-2016-8646 kernel: Oops in shash_async_export()
Summary: CVE-2016-8646 kernel: Oops in shash_async_export()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8646
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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: Embargoed1390878 (view as bug list)
Depends On: Red Hat1387632 Engineering1394099 Engineering1394100 Engineering1394101 Engineering1394102 1395044 Engineering1459304
Blocks: Embargoed1388822
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Reported: 2016-10-26 09:02 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:07 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could trigger oops in shash_async_export() by attempting to force the in-kernel hashing algorithms into decrypting an empty data set.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:01:13 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1297 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2017-05-25 17:28:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1298 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2017-05-25 17:39:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1308 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-05-25 19:32:54 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-26 09:02:11 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could triger oops in shash_async_export() by attempting to force the in-kernel hashing algorithms into decrypting an empty data set.


Upstream discussion:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/12/198

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4afa5f9617927453ac04b24b584f6c718dfb4f45

Oss-sec post: 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/15/2
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-26 09:02:25 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Igor Redko (Virtuozzo kernel team)
Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2016-11-07 02:56:21 UTC 
*** EmbargoedBug 1390878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Wade Mealing 2016-11-07 05:30:53 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 as the code creating this issue is not present in the products listed.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.
Comment 10 Wade Mealing 2016-11-15 02:19:30 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1395044]
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-25 13:30:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

Via RHSA-2017:1297 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1297
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-25 13:40:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1298 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1298
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-25 15:37:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1308 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1308
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