Out-of-Bounds Affecting kernel-tools-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.1.10-17.31.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
6.3% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-KERNELTOOLSDEBUGINFO-1691303
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed5 Oct 2017

Introduced: 5 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 kernel-tools-debuginfo to version 0:4.1.10-17.31.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2015-603.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-debuginfo package and not the kernel-tools-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 (committed on April 14, 2015). This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 (backported to Linux 3.10.77 in May 2015), but it was not recognized as a security threat. With CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE enabled, and a normal top-down address allocation strategy, load_elf_binary() will attempt to map a PIE binary into an address range immediately below mm->mmap_base. Unfortunately, load_elf_ binary() does not take account of the need to allocate sufficient space for the entire binary which means that, while the first PT_LOAD segment is mapped below mm->mmap_base, the subsequent PT_LOAD segment(s) end up being mapped above mm->mmap_base into the are that is supposed to be the "gap" between the stack and the binary.

CVSS Scores

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