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Tracker / CVE-2017-12146

CVE-2017-12146

High 7.0

The driver_override implementation in drivers/base/platform.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a race condition between a read operation and a store operation that involve different overrides.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.61
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.43
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.11.10
linux linux_kernel · 4.12 → 4.12.1
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.77
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.37

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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