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CVE-2017-5123 - log back

CVE-2017-5123 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Local
Type	+ Privilege escalation
Description	+ It was discovered that when the waitid() syscall in Linux kernel v4.13 was refactored, it accidentally stopped checking that the incoming argument was pointing to userspace. This allowed local attackers to write directly to kernel memory, which could lead to privilege escalation.
References	+ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=96ca579a1ecc943b75beba58bebb0356f6cc4b51
Notes	+ Introduced by: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c48abe91be03d191d0c20cc755877da2cb35622