CVE-2017-14051

medium

Description

An integer overflow in the qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom_ctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by leveraging root access.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100571

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194061

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9929625/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-08-31

Updated: 2018-03-16

Type: CWE-190

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM