CVE-2016-3672
First published: Thu Apr 07 2016(Updated: )
A weakness was found in the Linux ASLR implementation. Any user able to running 32-bit applications in a x86 machine can disable the ASLR by setting the RLIMIT_STACK resource to unlimited. External references: <a href="http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-3672-Unlimiting-the-stack-not-longer-disables-ASLR.html">http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-3672-Unlimiting-the-stack-not-longer-disables-ASLR.html</a> <a href="http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/34">http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/34</a> Upstream fix: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb">http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb</a> <a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb">http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =15.10 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit | =12.0 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop | =12.0 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching | =12.0 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud | =12.0 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension | =12.0-sp1 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server | =12.0 | |
| Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension | =12.0 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | <=4.5.2 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 6.1.106-3 6.1.99-1 6.10.9-1 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85884
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39669/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/26
- http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-3672-Unlimiting-the-stack-not-longer-disables-ASLR.html
- http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-3672-Unlimiting-the-stack-not-longer-dis
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182524.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035506
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537996/100/0/threaded
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2016-3672
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/34
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1324750
- https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/8b8addf891de8a00e4d39fc32f93f7c5eb8feceb
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3672
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3672
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3672
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3672
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