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Race Condition Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions <0:3.10.0-693.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-5191122
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 18 Nov 2016
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Introduced: 18 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-10200 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper to version 0:3.10.0-693.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1842.

NVD Description

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

Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the SOCK_ZAPPED status, related to net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c and net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c.

CVSS Scores

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NVD

7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High