CVE-2016-9178
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 4, 2016
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af
- [oss-security] 20161104 Re: kernel: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1391908
- 94144vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5
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