Uninitialized Integer Variable Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2016-9178 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.

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