Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-7959902
- published14 Sept 2024
- disclosed18 Apr 2017
Introduced: 18 Apr 2017
CVE-2016-9604 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
It was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.11-rc8 that root can gain direct access to an internal keyring, such as '.dns_resolver' in RHEL-7 or '.builtin_trusted_keys' upstream, by joining it as its session keyring. This allows root to bypass module signature verification by adding a new public key of its own devising to the keyring.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102135
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-9604.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035576
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9604
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee8f844e3c5a73b999edf733df1c529d6503ec2f
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9604
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842