CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9074

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-05-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-19
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-125

Description

The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 does not consider that the nexthdr field may be associated with an invalid option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted socket and send system calls.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.89) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.56) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.42) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.71) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.31) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.11.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References