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CVE-2018-17972

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.35% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-10-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2018-17972
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.35%
Linux

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.