CVE-2016-9604
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-11 13:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
It was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.11-rc8 that root can gain direct access to an internal keyring, such as '.dns_resolver' in RHEL-7 or '.builtin_trusted_keys' upstream, by joining it as its session keyring. This allows root to bypass module signature verification by adding a new public key of its own devising to the keyring.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-9604.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102135Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035576Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9604Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee8f844e3c5a73b999edf733df1c529d6503ec2fPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
kernelsecurity
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