vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-17807: ELSA-2019-4576: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 8, 2017
Added
Mar 12, 2019
Modified
Jan 23, 2025

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to the current task's "default request-key keyring" via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c.
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel omitted an access-control check when writing a key to the current task's default keyring, allowing a local user to bypass security checks to the keyring. This compromises the validity of the keyring for those who rely on it.

Solutions

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