CVE-2017-7477

Un desbordamiento de buffer basado en memoria dinámica en drivers/net/macsec.c del módulo MACsec en el kernel del Linux hasta la versión 4.10.12, permitiría a los atacantes causar una denegación de servicio u otro tipo de impacto no especificado al aprovechar el uso de la propiedad MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1 junto con la propiedad NETIF_F_FRAGLIST, provocando un error en la función skb_to_sgvec.

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel allocates heap memory to build the scattergather list from a fragment list(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list) in the socket buffer(skb_buff). The heap overflow occurred if 'MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1' parameter and 'NETIF_F_FRAGLIST' feature are both used together. A remote user or process could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privilege on a system.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix: A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap and stack memory regions were adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw to jump over the stack guard gap, cause controlled memory corruption on process stack or the adjacent memory region, and thus increase their privileges on the system. This is a kernel-side mitigation which increases the stack guard gap size from one page to 1 MiB to make successful exploitation of this issue more difficult.