PT-2017-14981
CVE-2017-17741
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Published
2017-12-18
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Updated
2019-05-17
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 4.14.8
Description
The issue allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. This is related to a write mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read in the KVM implementation, specifically in the files arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.
Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.14.8, update to version 4.14.8 or later to resolve the issue.
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