CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-11473

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-07-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-20
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
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the mp_override_legacy_irq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.50) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.63) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.79) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.40) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.12.4) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References