CVE-2017-7616

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedApr 10, 2017
First seenApr 10, 2017

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.10.9—

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