CVE-2017-14140

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14140
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14140.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14140
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Published
2017-09-05T06:29:00.273Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:33:26.228375Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.

References

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14140.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.12.8"
            }
        ]
    }
]