CVE-2018-17972
—CVSS 3.0
5.5 medium
EPSS
<1%p28
Published
()
Modified
Description
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.
- Vendors
- linuxcanonicalredhatdebian
- Products
- linux kernel, ubuntu linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, enterprise linux server tus, enterprise linux workstation, debian linux
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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