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CVE-2017-11472
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-20T04:29:00.283 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:01:52.177

Summary

The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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