CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-1000365

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-06-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The Linux Kernel imposes a size restriction on the arguments and environmental strings passed through RLIMIT_STACK/RLIM_INFINITY (1/4 of the size), but does not take the argument and environment pointers into account, which allows attackers to bypass this limitation. This affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier. It appears that this feature was introduced in the Linux Kernel version 2.6.23.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.23 < 3.2.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.108) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.16.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.59) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.43) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.75) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.11.8)

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