CVE-2017-16996

high

Description

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 register truncation mishandling.

References

Advisories
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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102267

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-27

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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