CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7616

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-04-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-388

Description

Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.10.9)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References