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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-11473: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-11473: kernel security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
01/07/2021

Description

Buffer overflow in the mp_override_legacy_irq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table.

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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