Race Condition Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-514.rt56.420.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-2073170
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 4 Jul 2016
Introduced: 4 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-6136 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel to version 0:3.10.0-514.rt56.420.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace-devel package and not the kernel-rt-trace-devel package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
Race condition in the audit_log_single_execve_arg function in kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to bypass intended character-set restrictions or disrupt system-call auditing by changing a certain string, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threaded
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533
- https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/18
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6136
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0307.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2584