CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17857
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
The check_stack_boundary function in 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 mishandling of invalid variable stack read operations.
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=ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469 Patch, Third Party Advisory