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CVE-2018-11508 CrOS: Vulnerability reported in Linux kernel |
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Issue descriptionVOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. Advisory: CVE-2018-11508 Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2018-11508 CVSS severity score: 2.1/10.0 Description: The compat_get_timex function in kernel/compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via adjtimex. This bug was filed by http://go/vomit Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance. |
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Comment 1 by zsm@chromium.org
, Jul 2Labels: Security_Severity-Low Security_Impact-None Pri-3
Owner: zsm@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Upstream fix is 0a0b9873("compat: fix 4-byte infoleak via uninitialized struct field") This patch is present in 4.14. The bug is not present in 4.4 as the memset was not removed in the first place.