CVE-2017-5550

Publication date

2017-02-06 06:04:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Off-by-one error in the pipe_advance function in lib/iov_iter.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap-memory locations in opportunistic circumstances by reading from a pipe after an incorrect buffer-release decision.