CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7261
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The vmw_surface_define_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.5 does not check for a zero value of certain levels data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference, and GPF and possibly panic) via a crafted ioctl call for a /dev/dri/renderD* device.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.10.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?t=149037004200005&r=1&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97096 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435719 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-March/136814.html Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?t=149037004200005&r=1&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97096 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435719 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-March/136814.html Third Party Advisory