Red Hat: CVE-2018-17972: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
10/03/2018
03/19/2019
03/14/2019
03/03/2021
Description
An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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