CVE-2017-17857

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 23, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 22, 2017

Description

The check_stack_boundary 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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea25f914dc164c8d56b36147ecc86bc65f83c469

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