CVE-2016-9178

Publication date

2016-11-28 03:01:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.