CVE-2017-16994

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CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
2.1
LOW
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.

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