Bug 1450972 (CVE-2017-8890) - CVE-2017-8890 kernel: Double free in the inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
Summary: CVE-2017-8890 kernel: Double free in the inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-8890
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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Depends On: 1450973 1455609 1455610 1455611 1455612 1455614
Blocks: 1452530
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-15 13:25 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2022-03-13 14:17 UTC (History)
31 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel allows attackers to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the accept system call. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to induce kernel memory corruption on the system, leading to a crash. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is unlikely.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:12:36 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2017:3163 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE new packages: kernel-alt 2017-11-09 14:59:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1842 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 18:22:09 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2077 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 18:13:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2669 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2017-09-07 00:36:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1854 0 None None None 2018-06-19 04:49:38 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-15 13:25:59 UTC
The inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel allows attackers to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the accept system call.

References:

https://2freeman.github.io/2018/01/06/CVE-2017-8890-internals.html

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=657831ffc38e30092a2d5f03d385d710eb88b09a

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b485ce69876c65db12ed390e7f9c0d2a64eff2c

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-15 13:26:53 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1450973]

Comment 10 Vladis Dronov 2017-05-25 15:33:41 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of this product due to its life cycle. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

This issue affects the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this issue.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2017-06-01 05:11:29 UTC
kernel-4.11.3-200.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2017-06-13 19:57:48 UTC
kernel-4.11.4-100.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:15:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2077 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 07:56:00 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-06 20:41:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

Via RHSA-2017:2669 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669

Comment 17 Justin M. Forbes 2018-01-29 18:01:54 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora with 4.12 kernel updates.

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-19 04:49:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1854 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854


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