vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2017-17864)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 23, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 and 4.9.73 mishandles states_equal comparisons between the pointer data type and the UNKNOWN_VALUE data type, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive address information, aka a "pointer leak."

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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