Tracker / CVE-2017-18344
CVE-2017-18344
Medium 5.5
The timer_create syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 doesn't properly validate the sigevent->sigev_notify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function (called when /proc/$PID/timers is read). This allows userspace applications to read arbitrary kernel memory (on a kernel built with CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE).
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.14.8 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_aus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_eus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_tus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation |
| redhat | mrg_realtime |
Analysis
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