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CVE-2017-14156
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-05T17:29:00.200 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:05:41.630

Summary

The atyfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading locations associated with padding bytes.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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