UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14140

Details

The move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.

Affected Packages(24 packages)

linux

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

3.13.0-142.191

linux-lts-xenial

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-97.120~14.04.1

linux

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-97.120

linux-aws

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1038.47

linux-azure

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.13.0-1005.7

linux-gcp

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.13.0-1002.5

linux-gke

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1032.32

linux-hwe

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1

linux-kvm

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1008.13

linux-raspi2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1075.83

References

REPORT

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9

REPORT

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.12.9

REPORT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9

REPORT

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14140

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3444-1

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3444-2

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3583-1

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3583-2

REPORT

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14140