CVE-2017-5550
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 6, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 20, 2017
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.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE REQUEST: linux kernel: process with pgid zero able to crash kernelmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9dc6f65bc5e232d1c05fe34b5daadc7e8bbf1fb
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416116
- 95716vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9dc6f65bc5e232d1c05fe34b5daadc7e8bbf1fb
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.5
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