Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7916

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-11-16 04:49:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 02:13:20

Assigner google_android

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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