The waitid implementation in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.4 accesses rusage data structures in unintended cases, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted system call.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-01T03:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:50:43.582Z

Reserved: 2017-09-30T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-14954

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-10-02T01:29:00.343

Modified: 2017-10-06T14:06:02.363

Link: CVE-2017-14954

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14954 - Bugzilla