CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-7837

Published: Sep 19, 2017 | Modified: Jul 15, 2021
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt, and Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended securelevel/secureboot restrictions by leveraging improper handling of secure_boot flag across kexec reboot.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 7.2 (including) 7.2 (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 7.3 (including) 7.3 (including)
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_aus Redhat 7.3 (including) 7.3 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_aus Redhat 7.4 (including) 7.4 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_mrg Redhat 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Kernel-rt Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)

References