SUSE: CVE-2016-7916: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
5
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
11/16/2016
07/25/2018
12/09/2016
06/21/2018
Description
Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
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