Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions <0:3.10.0-1127.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-7972474
- published 14 Sep 2024
- disclosed 27 Jul 2019
Introduced: 27 Jul 2019
CVE-2015-9289 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper to version 0:3.10.0-1127.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1016.
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.
In the Linux kernel before 4.1.4, a buffer overflow occurs when checking userspace params in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c. The maximum size for a DiSEqC command is 6, according to the userspace API. However, the code allows larger values such as 23.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9289
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.4
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1016