Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: out-of-bounds memory reading via __remove_dirty_segment
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Linux, Slackware.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on server, denial of
service on service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 31/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
__remove_dirty_segment() of the Linux kernel, in order to trigger
a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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