vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-14140: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
2017-09-05
Added
2019-08-28
Modified
2023-05-25

Description

The move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.

Solution(s)

centos-upgrade-kernelcentos-upgrade-kernel-rt
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