A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4unlink function. An attacker could corrupt memory or escalate privileges when deleting a file from a recently unmounted specially crafted ext4 filesystem, including local, USB, and iSCSI.
The Linux kernel through 5.3.13 has a startoffset+size Integer Overflow in cpia2remapbuffer in drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2core.c because cpia2 has its own mmap implementation. This allows local users (with /dev/video0 access) to obtain read and write permissions on kernel physical pages, which can possibly result in a privilege escalation.
DISPUTED A memory leak in the unittestdataadd() function in drivers/of/unittest.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering offdtunflattentree() failures, aka CID-e13de8fe0d6a. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this because unittest.c can only be reached during boot.
In the Linux kernel before 5.0.3, a memory leak exits in hsrdevfinalize() in net/hsr/hsrdevice.c if hsraddport fails to add a port, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-6caabe7f197d.
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.20.2. An out-of-bounds access exists in the function buildaudioprocunit in the file sound/usb/mixer.c.
A flaw was found in the allocatetracebuffer in kernel/trace/trace.c in the debug subsystem, when failure to allocate a dynamic percpu area, a resource cleanup is called. The pointer (buf->buffer) still holds the address and is not set to NULL, which can cause a use-after-free problem, leading to a dangling pointer issue.
A flaw that allowed an attacker to leak kernel memory was found in the network subsystem where an attacker with permissions to create tun/tap devices can create a denial of service and panic the system.
The Siemens R3964 line discipline driver in drivers/tty/nr3964.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.8 has multiple race conditions.
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drivers/uwb/uwbd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.
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drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to the USBDTINTERFACEASSOCIATION descriptor.
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An attacker within bluetooth transmission range can cause a stack buffer overflow in the Bluetooth system of the Linux kernel while processing pending L2CAP configuration responses from a client. An unauthenticated user able to connect to a system via Bluetooth could use this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the system.
External References:
https://www.armis.com/blueborne/ https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/blueborne https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3177231 https://access.redhat.com/blogs/product-security/posts/blueborne
An upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e860d2c904d1a9f38a24eb44c9f34b8f915a6ea3
A memory corruption issue was found in the Linux kernel.
When building a UFO packet with MSGMORE ipappenddata() calls ipufoappenddata() to append. However in between two send() calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption.
In case UFO packet lengths exceeds MTU, copy = maxfraglen - skb->len becomes negative on the non-UFO path and the branch to allocate new skb is taken. This triggers fragmentation and computation of fraggap = skbprev->len - maxfraglen. Fraggap can exceed MTU, causing copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap to become negative. Subsequently skbcopyandcsumbits() writes out-of-bounds.
Introducing commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e89e9cf539a2
A race condition issue was found in the way the raw packet sockets implementation in the Linux kernel networking subsystem handled synchronization. A local user able to open a raw packet socket (requires the CAPNETRAW capability) could use this to waste resources in the kernels ring buffer or possibly cause a read-out-of-bounds on the heap possibly panicking the machine.
In a default or common use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 this issue does not allow an unprivileged local user to use this functionality.
In order to exploit this issue the attacker needs CAPNETRAW capability, which needs to be granted by the administrator to the attacker's account. Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not have unprivileged user namespaces enabled by default, local unprivileged users also cannot abuse namespaces to grant this capability.
Upstream patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/800274/
Buffer overflow in the mpoverridelegacyirq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table.
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The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected.
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A flaw was found on the linux kernel which enables a race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the SOCKZAPPED status, related to net/l2tp/l2tpip.c and net/l2tp/l2tpip6.c.
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/32c231164b76
Follow-up upstream patches:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0382a25af3c7 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a3c18422a4b4 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5e3a190937a https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/df90e6886146 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/31e2f21fb35b
Merge commit of the above series:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7752f72748db
Another follow-up upstream patch:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94d7ee0baa8b
References:
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
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It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-9576 was incomplete: the Linux kernel's sg implementation did not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNELDS option is set. A local attacker to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging write access to a /dev/sg device.
A double free vulnerability was found in netlinkdump, which could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified impact.
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/577
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2016/05/15/69
Upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=92964c79b357efd980812c4de5c1fd2ec8bb5520