Error Handling Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.39-400.300.2.el5uek
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2532070
- published 10 Apr 2022
- disclosed 10 Apr 2017
Introduced: 10 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7616 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Oracle:5 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:2.6.39-400.300.2.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-4172.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug package and not the kernel-uek-debug package as distributed by Oracle.
See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.
Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.
References
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2017-7616.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1842.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1842-1.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4161.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4164.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4172.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97527
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038503
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854