CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2636

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-03-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-07
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, CWE-415

Description

Race condition in drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (double free) by setting the HDLC line discipline.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.31 < 3.2.87) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.106) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.72) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.16.42) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.49) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.49) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.54) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.15) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.10.3) • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-415 Double Free weakness

References