<p>Upgrade <code>Centos:7</code> <code>kernel-rt-trace-devel</code> to version 0:3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7 or higher.</p>

NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7

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Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-2089615
published 26 Jul 2021
disclosed 3 Mar 2017

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Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6951 Open this link in a new tab CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel to version 0:3.10.0-693.rt56.617.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.

The keyring_search_aux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.79 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a request_key system call for the "dead" type.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Local
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

Low
User Interaction (UI)

None

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

None
Integrity (I)

None
Availability (A)

High