Stack Guard Page Bypass Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2017-1000364 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier (the stackguard page was introduced in 2010).

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