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ghsa-3h5j-qwmx-f9m6

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:29

Modified

2022-05-14 03:29

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

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.

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cve-2017-16994

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-11-27 19:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:43

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
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	https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1431	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
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	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0502	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7c	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101969	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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