CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17863

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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-190

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x through 4.9.71 does not check the relationship between pointer values and the BPF stack, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow or invalid memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.0 <= 4.9.71) • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References