CVE-2017-1000370

The offset2lib patch as used in the i686 32-bit Linux kernel contains a vulnerability that allows a PIE binary to be execve()'ed with 1GB of arguments or environmental strings. the stack occupies the address 0x80000000 and the PIE binary is mapped above 0x40000000 nullifying the protection of the offset2lib patch.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 as the i686 architecture is not supported by this kernel.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. At this time there is no plan to release an update to fix this issue.

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