vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2017-16994: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 27, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-basesuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-default-extrasuse-upgrade-kernel-default-mansuse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azuresuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-buildsuse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure

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