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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-9178: ELSA-2017-3534: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
2016-09-15
Added
2017-04-04
Modified
2025-01-23

Description

The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek

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