CVE-2017-17712: Race Condition
First published: Fri Dec 15 2017(Updated: )
A flaw was found in the kernels implementation of raw_sendmsg allowing a local attacker to panic the kernel or possible leak kernel addresses. A local attacker with the privilege of creating raw sockets, can abuse a possible race condition when setting the socket option to allow the kernel to automatically create ip header values. References: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/401">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/401</a> <a href="https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/846641/">https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/846641/</a> An upstream patch: <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=3.19<4.1.52 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=4.2<4.4.109 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=4.5<4.9.74 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=4.10<4.14.11 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.112-1 6.11.7-1 6.11.9-1 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0502
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-04-01
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3581-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3581-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3581-3/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3582-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3582-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2017-17712
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/401
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/846641/
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1526933
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158511
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526427
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/8f659a03a0ba9289b9aeb9b4470e6fb263d6f483
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17712
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17712
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17712
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17712
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