CVE-2017-8065

moderate-risk
Published 2017-04-23

crypto/ccm.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x through 4.10.12 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Linux

References (8)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97994
Patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b...
Patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b30460c5b0ed762be75a004e924ec3f8711e03...
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97994
Patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b...
Patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b30460c5b0ed762be75a004e924ec3f8711e03...
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 23/34 · High