CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17977

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2018-10-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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-400

Description

The Linux kernel 4.14.67 mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) by leveraging root access to execute crafted applications, as demonstrated on CentOS 7.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 4.14.67

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References