CVE-2017-16994
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-27 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:43
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
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