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SUSE: CVE-2016-0823: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-0823: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/25/2016
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

The pagemap_open function in fs/proc/task_mmu.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3, as used in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01, allows local users to obtain sensitive physical-address information by reading a pagemap file, aka Android internal bug 25739721.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs

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