CVE-2017-14954

La implementación waitid en kernel/exit.c en el kernel de Linux hasta la versión 4.13.4 accede a estructuras de datos rusage en casos que no debería, lo que permite a los usuarios locales obtener información sensible y omitir el mecanismo de protección KASLR mediante una llamada al sistema manipulada.

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. It was discovered that on the PowerPC architecture, the kernel did not properly sanitize the signal stack when handling sigreturn. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.