Identified every bit CVE-2017-1000253, the põrnikas was initially discovered past times Google researcher Michael Davidson inward Apr 2015.
Since it was non recognised every bit a serious põrnikas at that time, the spell for this center flaw was non backported to long-term Linux distributions inward center 3.10.77.
However, researchers at Qualys Research Labs has straightaway constitute that this vulnerability could last exploited to escalate privileges together with it affects all major Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Debian, together with CentOS.
The vulnerability left "all versions of CentOS seven earlier 1708 (released on September 13, 2017), all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux seven earlier 7.4 (released on August 1, 2017), together with all versions of CentOS half dozen together with Red Hat Enterprise Linux half dozen are exploitable," Qualys said inward an advisory published yesterday.
The vulnerability, which has been given a CVSS3 Base Score of 7.8 out of 10, resides inward the means Linux center loads ELF executables, which potentially results inward retentiveness corruption.
Researchers notice that an unprivileged local user amongst access to SUID (or otherwise privileged) Position Independent Executable (PIE) binary could purpose this vulnerability to escalate their privileges on the affected system.
In social club to mitigate this issue, users tin give the axe switch to the legacy mmap layout past times setting vm.legacy_va_layout to 1, which volition effectively disable the exploitation of this safety flaw.
Since the mmap allocations outset much lower inward the procedure address infinite together with follow the bottom-up allotment model, "the initial PIE executable mapping is far from the reserved stack surface area together with cannot interfere amongst the stack."
Qualys says this flaw is non express to the PIEs whose read-write segment is larger than 128MB, which is the minimum distance betwixt the mmap_base together with the highest address of the stack, non the lowest address of the stack.
So, when passing 1.5GB of declaration strings to execve(), whatever PIE tin give the axe last mapped straight below the stack together with trigger the vulnerability.
Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Debian, together with CentOS, accept released safety updates to address the vulnerability.
The Qualys squad has promised to divulge a proof-of-concept before long exploit that plant on CentOS-7 center versions "3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64" together with "3.10.0-514.26.1.el7.x86_64," i time a maximum number of users accept had fourth dimension to spell their systems against the flaw.
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