PT-2017-12367
CVE-2017-12146
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Published
2017-07-13
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Updated
2023-06-21
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.0
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 4.12.1
Description
The issue allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a race condition between a read operation and a store operation that involve different overrides in the driver override implementation in drivers/base/platform.c.
Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.12.1, update to version 4.12.1 or later to resolve the issue.
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