Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201710-26
=========================================
Severity: High
Date    : 2017-10-17
CVE-ID  : CVE-2017-5123
Package : linux
Type    : privilege escalation
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-444

Summary
======
The package linux before version 4.13.7-1 is vulnerable to privilege
escalation.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 4.13.7-1.

# pacman -Syu "linux>=4.13.7-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 4.13.7.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
It was discovered that when the waitid() syscall in Linux kernel v4.13
was refactored, it accidentally stopped checking that the incoming
argument was pointing to userspace. This allowed local attackers to
write directly to kernel memory, which could lead to privilege
escalation.

Impact
=====
A local attacker is able to escalate privileges on the affected host.

References
=========
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/12/18
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=96ca579a1ecc943b75beba58bebb0356f6cc4b51
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-5123

ArchLinux: 201710-26: linux: privilege escalation

October 17, 2017

Summary

It was discovered that when the waitid() syscall in Linux kernel v4.13 was refactored, it accidentally stopped checking that the incoming argument was pointing to userspace. This allowed local attackers to write directly to kernel memory, which could lead to privilege escalation.

Resolution

Upgrade to 4.13.7-1. # pacman -Syu "linux>=4.13.7-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 4.13.7.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/12/18 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=96ca579a1ecc943b75beba58bebb0356f6cc4b51 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-5123

Severity
Package : linux
Type : privilege escalation
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-444

Workaround

None.

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