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)  
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