CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000377
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
An issue was discovered in the size of the default stack guard page on PAX Linux (originally from GRSecurity but shipped by other Linux vendors), specifically the default stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects PAX Linux Kernel versions as of June 19, 2017 (specific version information is not available at this time).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000377 Broken Link
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000377 Broken Link
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt Third Party Advisory