cve-2023-0597
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 05:17
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw possibility of memory leak in the Linux kernel cpu_entry_area mapping of X86 CPU data to memory was found in the way user can guess location of exception stack(s) or other important data. A local user could use this flaw to get access to some important data with expected location in memory.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/28/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/97e3d26b5e5f371b3ee223d94dd123e6c442ba80Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/28/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/linus/97e3d26b5e5f371b3ee223d94dd123e6c442ba80Mailing List, Patch
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