VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2017-17052
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-17052
  CVSS severity score: 7.2/10.0
  Description:

The mm_init function in kernel/fork.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.10 does not clear the ->exe_file member of a new process's mm_struct, allowing a local attacker to achieve a use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact by running a specially crafted program.



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
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