Note: This is a public test instance of Red Hat Bugzilla. The data contained within is a snapshot of the live data so any changes you make will not be reflected in the production Bugzilla. Email is disabled so feel free to test any aspect of the site that you want. File any problems you find or give feedback at bugzilla.redhat.com.
Bug 1498016 (CVE-2017-15299) - CVE-2017-15299 kernel: Incorrect updates of uninstantiated keys crash the kernel
Summary: CVE-2017-15299 kernel: Incorrect updates of uninstantiated keys crash the kernel
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15299
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1498017 1502569 1502570 1502571 1503242
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-03 10:15 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2023-12-15 15:58 UTC (History)
39 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:53:25 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0654 0 None None None 2018-04-10 05:05:40 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 10:15:22 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel. An update on an uninstantiated key could cause a kernel panic, leading to DoS.

References:

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1499828.html

https://marc.info/?t=150654188100001&r=1&w=2

https://marc.info/?t=150783958600011&r=1&w=2

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=60ff5b2f547af3828aebafd54daded44cfb0807a
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-03 10:16:41 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1498017]
Comment 4 Vladis Dronov 2017-10-13 13:34:42 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2. Future updates for the respective releases may address this issue.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-10-24 05:28:20 UTC 
kernel-4.13.8-300.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-10-25 21:20:20 UTC 
kernel-4.13.8-100.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2017-10-25 23:13:18 UTC 
kernel-4.13.8-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 05:05:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0654 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.