Impact: Important Public Date: 2017-10-12 CWE: CWE-391 Bugzilla: 1500094: CVE-2017-5123 kernel: Missing access_ok() checks in waitid() The waitid implementation in upstream kernels did not restrict the target destination to copy information results. This can allow local users to write to otherwise protected kernel memory, which can lead to privilege escalation.
Find out more about CVE-2017-5123 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as they did not include the upstream commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c48abe91be03d191d0c20cc755877da2cb35622 that introduced this issue.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-alt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Not affected |
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