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Feast day December 19

S Stack Clash CVE-2017-1000364
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Saint Stack Clash

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Technical record

Disclosed on
December 19 2022
CVE
CVE-2017-1000364

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).

Sources: blog.qualys.com

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