CVE-2016-0823: Infoleak
The pagemapopen function in fs/proc/taskmmu.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3, as used in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01, allows local users to obtain sensitive physical-address information by reading a pagemap file, aka Android internal bug 25739721.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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ubuntu/linuxto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 3.13.0-53.88 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-lts-utopicto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1