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Red Hat: CVE-2017-11473: Important: kernel-alt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:0654)

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 20, 2017
Added
Apr 11, 2018
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the mp_override_legacy_irq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernel

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