Mageia forum

This one looks potentially very serious, though apparently there is no known exploit in the wild yet.

I am sure the Mageia team will get this patched as soon as upstream has a patch in place.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3023870/ ... vices.html

I hope the kernel developers patch it soon.
Here is more info for the exploit and demo:
http://perception-point.io/2016/01/14/a ... 2016-0728/

I compiled and ran the exploit on my workstation, and here is the result:

Code: Select all

uid=501, euid=501
Increfing...
finished increfing
forking...
finished forking
caling revoke...
uid=501, euid=501
jiml@dadsbox:jiml> whoami
jiml


In other words, it did not work.

Turns out that a couple of kernel modules are not at the addresses listed in the demo exploit code. I have recompiled with the correct addresses for my running kernel, and I am trying the exploit again.

For reference, you can find the static location of kernel modules using "cat /proc/kallsyms"

Exploit did not work, even with correct module addresses.

This is kernel 4.1.15-desktop-1.mga5

Our kernel maintainer, tmb, knows about this vulnerability and already started patching the Mageia 5 kernels.
QA team will test the kernels as fast as possible, so they can be released as regular updates when QA team sees they don't have regressions.

FWIW, link to the bugreport: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17557

Excellent! Thanks guys!
That was promptly handled.

After testing, the fixed kernels were pushed as regular updates for Mageia 5 over six hours ago.
However, some mirrors have problems syncing atm. If you don't get the update, you might want to select an up-to-date mirror (the green ones for Mga5 in this list http://mirrors.mageia.org/status)

jiml8 wrote:I compiled and ran the exploit on my workstation, and here is the result:
[...]
In other words, it did not work.

Didn't work here too. Seems my PS1 checking the return code of the last command protected me


But in any case, fixes were already pushed:

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0033.html (for regular kernel)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0032.html (for kernel-tmb)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0031.html (for kernel-linus)