CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17558

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/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-787

Description

The usb_destroy_configuration function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the USB core subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.14.5 does not consider the maximum number of configurations and interfaces before attempting to release resources, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.5) • suse linux enterprise server 11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References