CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9059
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-18
- 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-404
Description
The NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by leveraging improper channel callback shutdown when unmounting an NFSv4 filesystem, aka a "module reference and kernel daemon" leak.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.11.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98551 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451386 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg63334.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98551 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451386 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c70422f760c120480fee4de6c38804c72aa26bc1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg63334.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory