Advisories » MGASA-2017-0260

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

Publication date: 13 Aug 2017
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-10810

Description

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the
following security issues:

Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driver(CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU) support
is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a
virtio gpu object in virtio_gpu_object_create(). A user/process could use
this flaw to leak host kernel memory potentially resulting in Dos
(CVE-2017-10810).

It also contains followup fixes to the Stack Clash (CVE-2017-1000370,
CVE-2017-1000371) security issues resolved in kernels released at end
of June, 2017.

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

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21391
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.75
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.76
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.77
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.78
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.79
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10810

SRPMS

5/core

• kernel-linus-4.4.79-1.mga5