CVE-2016-6187
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 6, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 9, 2016
Description
The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.5 does not validate the buffer size, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an AppArmor setprocattr hook.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30a46a4647fd1df9cf52e43bf467f0d9265096ca
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30a46a4647fd1df9cf52e43bf467f0d9265096ca
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.5
- [oss-security] 20160709 Re: CVE request: apparmor: oops in apparmor_setprocattr()mailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20160708 [GIT PULL] Fix for AppArmor oops in apparmor_setprocattr()mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354383
- 91696vdb-entry
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