CVE-2017-18255

The perfcputimemaxpercent_handler function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large value, as demonstrated by an incorrect sample-rate calculation.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18255.json"

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.11"
            }
        ]
    }
]