cve-2016-6136
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:22
Severity ?
Summary
Race condition in the audit_log_single_execve_arg function in kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to bypass intended character-set restrictions or disrupt system-call auditing by changing a certain string, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0307.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/18Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
Impacted products
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