PT-2016-5354 · Linux+5 · Linux Kernel+5

Adam Mariš · Published 2016-01-13 · Updated 2023-02-12 · CVE-2016-3070

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.4

Description The issue is related to the trace writeback dirty page implementation in the Linux kernel, which improperly interacts with mm/migrate.c. This can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash, or possibly have other unspecified impacts by triggering a certain page move.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.4, update to version 4.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1018

ALT-PU-2016-1485

CESA-2016_2574

CVE-2016-3070

DSA-3607-1

RHSA-2016:2574

RHSA-2016:2584

RHSA-2016_2574

RHSA-2016_2584

SUSE-SU-2017:1247-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1

USN-3034-1

USN-3034-2

USN-3035-1

USN-3035-2

USN-3035-3

USN-3036-1

USN-3037-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 178

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/42cb14b110a5698ccf26ce59c4441722605a3743 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3037-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1247-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3035-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3070 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3035-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-2574.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3034-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3646.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3036-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3070 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3034-1 · Vendor Advisory