CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17712

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-12-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

The raw_sendmsg() function in net/ipv4/raw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.6 has a race condition in inet->hdrincl that leads to uninitialized stack pointer usage; this allows a local user to execute code and gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.52) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.109) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.74) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References