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CVE-2017-14140
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-05T06:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:05:40.290

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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