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LIN7-7145 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2016-9178

Created: Dec 15, 2016    Updated: May 29, 2018
Found In Version: 7.0.0.21
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9178

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