CVE-2016-9178

The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9178.json"

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "4.7.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]