vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-14140

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 5, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

The move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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