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2016-08-06
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.
| Products | Linux_kernel |
| Type | Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362) |
| First patch |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c |
| Relevant file/s | ./kernel/auditsc.c (modified, +164, -168) |
| Links |
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533 • http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c • http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threaded • https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681 |
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