CVE-2018-17972

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17972
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17972.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17972
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Published
2018-10-03T22:29:00Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:46:29Z
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

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.

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Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
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