Use After Free Affecting kernel-rt-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-693.17.1.rt56.636.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.33% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRTDEVEL-4796977
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Sept 2017

Introduced: 20 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-15649  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-rt-devel to version 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.rt56.636.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:0152.

NVD Description

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

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of packet_fanout data structures, because of a race condition (involving fanout_add and packet_do_bind) that leads to a use-after-free, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6346.