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Tracker / CVE-2024-49975

CVE-2024-49975

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uprobes: fix kernel info leak via "[uprobes]" vma xol_add_vma() maps the uninitialized page allocated by __create_xol_area() into userspace. On some architectures (x86) this memory is readable even without VM_READ, VM_EXEC results in the same pgprot_t as VM_EXEC|VM_READ, although this doesn't really matter, debugger can read this memory anyway.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 5.10.227
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.168
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.113
linux linux_kernel · 6.11 → 6.11.3
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.55
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.10.14

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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