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Bug 1350796 - (CVE-2014-9903) CVE-2014-9903 kernel: Information leak in sys_sched_getattr()
CVE-2014-9903 kernel: Information leak in sys_sched_getattr()
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-06-28 08:12 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2016-06-28 08:27 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 3.14-rc4
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Last Closed: 2016-06-28 08:27:54 EDT
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-28 08:12:28 EDT
The sched_read_attr function in kernel/sched/core.c in the Linux kernel 3.14-rc before 3.14-rc4 uses an incorrect size, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted sched_getattr system call.

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4efbc454ba68def5ef285b26ebfcfdb605b52755

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