Linux Kernel 'drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c' Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A local information disclosure vulnerability exists in the 'acpidscreateoperands' function in the drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c file in Linux kernel 4.12.9 and earlier, which...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13693

The acpidscreateoperands function in drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.9 does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism in the kerne...