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Red Hat: RHSA-2017:1233-01 Critical: Kernel Race Condition Threat

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2017
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A critical kernel patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux resolves significant security vulnerabilities, particularly those related to potential privilege escalation threats.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* A race condition flaw was found in the N_HLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing n_hdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system. (CVE-2017-2636, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Popov for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue red hat kernel update privilege escalation important race condition

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2636 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: kernel-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7):
x86_64: kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.42.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1233-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1233
Issue date: 2017-05-16

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue red hat kernel update privilege escalation important race condition

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.7) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1428319 - CVE-2017-2636 kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()

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