CVE-2017-17857

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17857
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17857.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17857
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-12-27T17:08:20.343Z
Modified
2026-02-17T00:13:44.496621Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The checkstackboundary function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging mishandling of invalid variable stack read operations.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469
Introduced
bebc6082da0a9f5d47a1ea2edc099bf671058bd4
Fixed
ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.14
v4.15-rc1
v4.15-rc2
v4.15-rc3

Database specific

source 
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