Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16994

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-27 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:57

Assigner 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.

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