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CVE-2017-18344

Published: 2018-07-26T19:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
The timer_create syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 doesn't properly validate the sigevent->sigev_notify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function (called when /proc/$PID/timers is read). This allows userspace applications to read arbitrary kernel memory (on a kernel built with CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE). > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt