CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7487
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-14
- 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-416
Description
The ipxitf_ioctl function in net/ipx/af_ipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a failed SIOCGIFADDR ioctl call for an IPX interface.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.44)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.55)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.41)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.70)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.11.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98439 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039237 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447734 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/757549/ Patch
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98439 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039237 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447734 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/757549/ Patch
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01 Third Party Advisory