kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c

The timercreate syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel doesn't properly validate the sigevent-sigevnotify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the showtimer function...

Linux kernel information disclosure vulnerability (CNVD-2018-24551)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the kernel/time/posix-timers.c file in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.14.8, which stems from an implementation of the timercrea...