Unchecked Error Condition Affecting python-perf package, versions <0:3.10.0-514.10.2.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHONPERF-2078480
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 12 Oct 2016
Introduced: 12 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-9083 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 python-perf to version 0:3.10.0-514.10.2.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-perf package and not the python-perf package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact, by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file for a VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl call, aka a "state machine confusion bug."
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93929
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9083
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0386