CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8063
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-23
- 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-119
Description
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.12 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 4.9.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.10.12)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.12 Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4 Mailing List, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97974 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f190e3aec212fc8c61e202c51400afa7384d4bc Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f190e3aec212fc8c61e202c51400afa7384d4bc Patch
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.12 Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4 Mailing List, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97974 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f190e3aec212fc8c61e202c51400afa7384d4bc Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f190e3aec212fc8c61e202c51400afa7384d4bc Patch