CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2017-16994
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7c
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101969
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0502
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1431