CVE-2017-1000371

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of mapping ELF PIE binary loading to allow evasion of the stack-guard page protection mechanisms that intend to mitigate this behavior. This issue appears to be limited to i386 based systems.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, MRG-2 and realtime kernels.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.