Bug 1758242 (CVE-2019-17053) - CVE-2019-17053 kernel: unprivileged users able to create RAW sockets in AF_IEEE802154 network protocol
Summary: CVE-2019-17053 kernel: unprivileged users able to create RAW sockets in AF_IE...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-17053
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: 1758243 1779494 1779495 1779496 1779497 1804800
Blocks: 1758244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-03 16:35 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:19 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel's AF_IEEE802154 networking module where permissions checks are not enforced. This can allow an unprivileged user to create raw sockets for this protocol leading to the potential for data leaks or system unavailability.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:34:16 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:2052 0 None None None 2020-05-11 12:53:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:2626 0 None None None 2020-06-19 01:49:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4416 0 None None None 2020-10-29 15:09:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4417 0 None None None 2020-10-29 15:07:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4418 0 None None None 2020-10-29 15:13:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4419 0 None None None 2020-10-29 15:11:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4420 0 None None None 2020-10-29 15:50:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1567 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:25:05 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1769 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:51:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4060 0 None None None 2020-09-29 20:51:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4062 0 None None None 2020-09-29 18:57:51 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-03 16:35:19 UTC 
A vulnerability was discovered in ieee802154_create in net/ieee802154/socket.c in the AF_IEEE802154 protocol module in the Linux kernel which did not enforcepermission checks. This could allow a local unprivileged user to create a raw socket.


Reference:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e69dbd4619e7674c1679cba49afd9dd9ac347eef
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-03 16:36:05 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1758243]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-10-25 18:07:02 UTC 
kernel-5.3.6-100.fc29, kernel-headers-5.3.6-100.fc29, kernel-tools-5.3.6-100.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Eric Christensen 2019-12-05 18:25:46 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw is rated as moderate; there are no known exploits using this mechanism as an attack surface against the system affected by this bug.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:25:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1567 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1567
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:51:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1769 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1769
Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:34:16 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-17053
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 18:57:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4062 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4062
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:51:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4060 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4060
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