CVE-2016-6136

Description

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

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/18

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threaded

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0307.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3