fkie_cve-2017-17807
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-12-20 23:29
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Summary
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to the current task's "default request-key keyring" via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca6ea1d9432052afb06baf2e3ae78188a4410bIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102301Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4dca6ea1d9432052afb06baf2e3ae78188a4410bIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00004.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.6Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca6ea1d9432052afb06baf2e3ae78188a4410bIssue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102301Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4dca6ea1d9432052afb06baf2e3ae78188a4410bIssue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.6Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *



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      "value": "The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to the current task\u0027s \"default request-key keyring\" via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c."
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