Bug 1350796 (CVE-2014-9903) - CVE-2014-9903 kernel: Information leak in sys_sched_getattr()
Summary: CVE-2014-9903 kernel: Information leak in sys_sched_getattr()
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-9903
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-06-28 12:12 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:52 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 3.14-rc4
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Last Closed: 2016-06-28 12:27:54 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-28 12:12:28 UTC
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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