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HistoryOct 13, 2016 - 1:17 p.m.

CVE-2016-7042

2016-10-1313:17:40
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EPSS

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46.8%

It was found that when the gcc stack protector was enabled, reading the /proc/keys file could cause a panic in the Linux kernel due to stack corruption. This happened because an incorrect buffer size was used to hold a 64-bit timeout value rendered as weeks.