CVE-2017-14140: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.12.8

Published 2017-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.