Advisories » MGASA-2017-0099

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Mar 2017
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-7184

Description

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.59 and fixes at least
the following security issue:

The xfrm_replay_verify_len function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux
kernel through 4.10.6 does not validate certain size data after an
XFRM_MSG_NEWAE update, which allows local users to obtain root privileges
or cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds access) by
leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (CVE-2017-7184).

For other upstream fixes in this update, see the referenced changelogs.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20609
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.56
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.57
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.58
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.59
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7184

SRPMS

5/core

• kernel-linus-4.4.59-1.mga5