CVE-2017-7616

Description

Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038503

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97527

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3