Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17864

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-23 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 21:06:48

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 mishandles states_equal comparisons between the pointer data type and the UNKNOWN_VALUE data type, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive address information, aka a "pointer leak."

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