Bug 1403842 (CVE-2016-6786, CVE-2016-6787) - CVE-2016-6786 CVE-2016-6787 kernel: Possible privilege escalation due to lack of locking around changing event->ctx
Summary: CVE-2016-6786 CVE-2016-6787 kernel: Possible privilege escalation due to lack...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-6786, CVE-2016-6787
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1209607 1265262 1291071
Blocks: 1403845
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Reported: 2016-12-12 13:30 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-23 14:55:12 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-12 13:30:08 UTC 
Possible privilege escalation issue due to lack of mutex locking around places where perf_event::ctx is being changed.

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f63a8daa5812afef4f06c962351687e1ff9ccb2b
Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2016-12-23 14:55:12 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 flaw was already fixed in the products listed.
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