Linux kernel vulnerabilities that allow attackers to access protected information

The vulnerability of the pagemapopen function fs/proc/taskmmu.c in Linux kernels is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to gain access to protected information by reading the pagemap file...

CVE-2016-0823

The pagemapopen function in fs/proc/taskmmu.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3, as used in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01, allows local users to obtain sensitive physical-address information by reading a pagemap file, aka Android internal bug 25739721...