CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8068

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-04-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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/net/usb/pegasus.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.11 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) 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 • linux linux kernel 4.9.1 • linux linux kernel 4.9.2 • linux linux kernel 4.9.3 • linux linux kernel 4.9.4 • linux linux kernel 4.9.5 • linux linux kernel 4.9.6 • linux linux kernel 4.9.8 • linux linux kernel 4.9.9 • linux linux kernel 4.9.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References