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Tracker / CVE-2018-17972

CVE-2018-17972

Medium 5.5

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.18.11
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

Analysis

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