CVE-2017-16994
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-27 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:43
Severity ?
Summary
The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7cPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.2Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101969Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0502
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1431Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7cPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43178/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
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