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ghsa-x43g-x8g8-q2qc

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:38

Modified

2022-05-17 03:38

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

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.

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CVE-2016-9178 (GCVE-0-2016-9178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-11-28 03:01

Modified

2024-08-06 02:42

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

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Tags

	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/4	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1391908	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94144	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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