CVE-2017-16994

Publication date

2017-11-27 19:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.