CVE
- Id
- 104709
- CVE No.
- CVE-2017-7889
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- The mm subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.10.10 does not properly enforce the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM protection mechanism, which allows local users to read or write to kernel memory locations in the first megabyte (and bypass slab-allocation access restrictions) via an application that opens the /dev/mem file, related to arch/x86/mm/init.c and drivers/char/mem.c.
- Phase
- Assigned (20170416)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments