CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16996
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-27
- 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-119
Description
kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging register truncation mishandling.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14 < 4.14.9)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102267 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102267 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958 Patch, Vendor Advisory