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CVE-2016-9178

Published: Nov 28, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af

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[oss-security] 20161104 Re: kernel: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1391908

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vdb-entry

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5

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