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 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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