CVE-2017-7616

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.10.9

Description The issue is related to incorrect error handling in the set mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.10.9, update to version 4.10.9 or later to resolve the issue.