CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15649

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-10-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of packet_fanout data structures, because of a race condition (involving fanout_add and packet_do_bind) that leads to a use-after-free, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6346.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.13.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References