Incorrect Calculation Affecting kernel-abi-whitelists package, versions <0:3.10.0-862.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-KERNELABIWHITELISTS-2525406
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2017

Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-9725  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-682  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 kernel-abi-whitelists to version 0:3.10.0-862.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-1062.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-whitelists package and not the kernel-abi-whitelists package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.