CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5897
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The ip6gre_err function in net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c in the Linux kernel allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving GRE flags in an IPv6 packet, which trigger an out-of-bounds access.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 3.10.106)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.71)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.16.41)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.49)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.4.50)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.11)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/07/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037794 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=7892032cfe67f4bde6fc2ee967e45a8fbaf33756 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/07/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037794 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=7892032cfe67f4bde6fc2ee967e45a8fbaf33756 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/ Third Party Advisory