readykernel-patch-64.7-63.0-1.vl7

An integer overflow flaw was found in create_elf_tables(). An unprivileged local user with access to SUID (or otherwise privileged) binary could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

The Linux kernel imposes a size limit on the memory needed to store the arguments and environment variables of a process, 1/4 of the maximum stack size (RLIMIT_STACK). However, the pointers to these data were not taken into account, which allowed attackers to bypass the limit and even exhaust the stack of the process.

It was found that the implementation of high resolution timers ('hrtimer' subsystem) did not handle the situation when a timer was started simultaneously with its restart in another thread. As a result, a BUG_ON() could trigger in __run_hrtimer() leading to kernel crash.

If an error occurred during execution of xfrm_net_init() when a new network namespace was created, xfrm_policy_lock could remain uninitialized. As a result, soft lockup could happen in xfrm_policy_flush() if it tried to acquire the lock after that.

It was found that the implementation of ploop did not handle errors reported by kthread_create() properly. This could lead to a kernel crash in dio_open().

It was discovered that a container with NFS mounts could keep the files /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clntX open, even if no NFS server was running there. As a result, CRIU reported errors when the users tried to migrate the container.

It was found that rpc_get_hdr() function from 'fuse_kio_pcs' module did not return valid values in 'msg_size' in some cases. As a result, the processes using large FUSE KIO messages could get stuck in an unkillable state.