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CVE-2018-17972
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-03T22:29:00.800 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:46:37.740

Summary

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack 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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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