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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-7914: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-7914: kernel security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

Description

The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-perf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-python-perf

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