{"id":"CVE-2017-11472","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T14:24:06.446857Z","published":"2017-07-20T04:29:00.283Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:2847-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2956-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/a23325b2e583556eae88ed3f764e457786bf4df6"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11472.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.11.9"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"}]}