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CVE-2017-17741

medium

Description

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

References

https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg160796.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00004.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102227

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-18

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0007