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CVE-2022-49852

riscv: process: fix kernel info leakage PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: process: fix kernel info leakage thread_struct's s[12] may contain random kernel memory content, which may be finally leaked to userspace. This is a security hole. Fix it by clearing the s[12] array in thread_struct when fork. As for kthread case, it's better to clear the s[12] array as well.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before c4601d30f7d989b4f354df899ab85b5f7a750d30; affected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before c5c0b3167537793a7cf936fb240366eefd2fc7fb; affected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before e56d18a976dda653194218df6d40d8122c775712; affected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before cc36c7fa5d9384602529ba3eea8c5daee7be4dbc; affected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before 358a68f98304b40b201ba5afe94c20355aa3dc68; affected 7db91e57a0acde126a162ababfb1e0ab190130cb before 6510c78490c490a6636e48b61eeaa6fb65981f4b
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.15; unaffected 0 before 4.15; unaffected 4.19.267 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.225 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.155 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.79 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.9 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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