SB2017062819 - Red Hat update for kernel-rt 

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SB2017062819 - Red Hat update for kernel-rt

Published: June 28, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB2017062819
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 75% Low 25%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000364)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to memory management errors in implementation of various functions under multiple operating systems. A local or remote attacker can trigger the affected application to process specially crafted data, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The vulnerability is dubbed by Qualys researchers as “Stack Clash”.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6214)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in tcp_splice_read() function in net/ipv4/tcp.c in Linux kernel before 4.9.11. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted TCP packet with the URG flag and trigger infinite loop.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7645)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem. A remote attacker can use a long RPC reply related to net/sunrpc/svc.c, fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c. and cause the system to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

4) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7895)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling a user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request, trigger pointer-arithmetic errors or possibly have unspecified other impact related to fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in access to the system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References