The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:12:39.871Z
Reserved: 2017-07-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-11472

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-07-20T04:29:00.283
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-11472
