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LIN9-3408 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2017-5967

Created: Feb 27, 2017    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Apr 10, 2018
Found In Version: 9.0.0.3
Fix Version: 9.0.0.6
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Kernel

Description

The time subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.9.9, when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is enabled, allows local users to discover real PID values (as distinguished from PID values inside a PID namespace) by reading the /proc/timer_list file, related to the print_timer function in kernel/time/timer_list.c and the __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info function in kernel/time/timer.c.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5967

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