Security Advisory

CVE-2018-17972

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-10-03 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 11:01:14

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.

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