CVE-2018-17972
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-10-03T22:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 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
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An issue was discovered in the procpidstack 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.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105525
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0512
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0514
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2473
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=153806242024956&w=2
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3832-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3835-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3880-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3880-2/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K27673650?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS