CVE-2017-14156

Description

The atyfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading locations associated with padding bytes.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150453196710422&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150401461613306&w=2

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/441

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100634

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3