Bug 1403817 (CVE-2015-8966) - CVE-2015-8966 kernel: Local privileges escalation via crafted F_OFD_GETLK/F_OFD_SETLK/F_OFD_SETLKW commands
Summary: CVE-2015-8966 kernel: Local privileges escalation via crafted F_OFD_GETLK/F_O...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-8966
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1403821
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Reported: 2016-12-12 12:29 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:53 UTC (History)
35 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 4.4
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Last Closed: 2017-01-18 12:29:57 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-12 12:29:18 UTC 
arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted (1) F_OFD_GETLK, (2) F_OFD_SETLK, or (3) F_OFD_SETLKW command in an fcntl64 system call.

Initial message:

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html#eop-in-kernel

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76cc404bfdc0d419c720de4daaf2584542734f42
Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2017-01-18 12:29:57 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 code with the flaw is not built in the products listed.
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