Published: 06/02/2017 Updated: 09/02/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 187

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Off-by-one error in the pipe_advance function in lib/iov_iter.c in the Linux kernel prior to 4.9.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap-memory locations in opportunistic circumstances by reading from a pipe after an incorrect buffer-release decision.

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Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...

Off-by-one error in the pipe_advance function in lib/iov_iterc in the Linux kernel before 495 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap-memory locations in opportunistic circumstances by reading from a pipe after an incorrect buffer-release decision ...

CWE-200 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9dc6f65bc5e232d1c05fe34b5daadc7e8bbf1fb https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416116 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.5 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9dc6f65bc5e232d1c05fe34b5daadc7e8bbf1fb http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95716 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3361-1/

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