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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2017-7889
HistoryApr 17, 2017 - 12:59 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2017-04-1700:59:00
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9

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

The mm subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.2 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.