vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-7616: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 10, 2017
Added
Aug 3, 2017
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.

Solutions

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

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