cve/2016/CVE-2016-9178.md

### [CVE-2016-9178](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9178)
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### Description

The __get_user_asm_ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get_user_ex call.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/thdusdl1219/CVE-Study
- https://github.com/vincent-deng/veracode-container-security-finding-parser