CVE-2016-6187

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2016-07-08
CWE:
CWE-131
Bugzilla:
1354383: CVE-2016-6187 kernel: apparmor: Potential privilege escalation via oops in apparmor_setprocattr()
A vulnerability leading to a local privilege escalation was found in apparmor in the Linux kernel. When proc_pid_attr_write() was changed to use memdup_user apparmor's (interface violating) assumption that the setprocattr buffer was always a single page was violated.

Find out more about CVE-2016-6187 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected by this flaw as CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR is not enabled in any current shipping kernels.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 realtime-kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Not affected

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