Re: CVE-2016-7117 Remote code execution vulnerability in kernel networking subsystem
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:54:12PM +0200, Jan Lühr wrote:
> Hello,
> Am 10/04/2016 um 07:57 PM schrieb Nicholas Luedtke:
> > On 10/04/2016 11:40 AM, Felix Knecht wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/04/2016 06:38 PM, Jan Lühr wrote:
> >>> CVE-2016-7117 was patched in Android today.I don't see much information
> >>> right now. The title is rather frightening - the issue appears to be urgent.
> >> The following upstream kernel commit is referenced in the security bulletin:
> >>
> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
> >>
> >> No idea if this is fixed in Debian though.
> >>
> >> Felix
> >>
> > Looks like it was picked up when Debian rolled to 3.16.36-1.
>
> Thanks for the info - if Felix is right, then 4.7 (jessie backports) is
> secure, since it was released months after the fix was pushed to the
> mainline kernel.
>
> However, it's somewhat strange that a bug labeled "Linux Kernel
> Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability", concerning a lot of
> kernels released in the last years
> (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93304) seem to be fixed in android
> only. Do you know any details?
>
> Anyway, using jessie-backports seem to help, thus I'm going for it...
I updated the security-tracker information for CVE-2016-7117:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7117 . The fix is
as well included in 3.16.36-1.
HTH,
Regards,
Salvatore
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