CVE-2017-11472
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 20, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 19, 2017
Description
The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-3619-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3754-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f
- https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/a23325b2e583556eae88ed3f764e457786bf4df6
- USN-3619-1vendor-advisory
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