CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17741

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.7) • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References