Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.7.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006388
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Nov 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9178  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.7.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.

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