vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-16994: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/27/2017
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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