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Vigil@nce - RHEL 7 Kernel: out-of-bounds memory reading via memcpy_fromiovecend
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: RHEL.
Severity: 1/4.
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: 04/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
memcpy_fromiovecend() of RHEL 7 Kernel, in order to trigger a
denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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