Privilege escalation in Google Android - CVE-2017-13215

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Privilege escalation in Google Android - CVE-2017-13215

Published: March 12, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10938
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13215
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the Upstream kernel skcipher. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted application and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected software

Google Android
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
SUSE Linux
MRG Realtime
Red Hat Virtualization Host
kernel (Red Hat package)
kernel-rt (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2017-13215

Update to the latest version.

kernel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.10.0-693.47.2.el7, 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7
kernel-rt (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.10.0-693.47.2.rt56.641.el6rt, 3.10.0-862.11.6.rt56.819.el7

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