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Tracker / CVE-2017-11473

CVE-2017-11473

High 7.8

Buffer overflow in the mp_override_legacy_irq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.95
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.63
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.44
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.16.50
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.12.4
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.79
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.40

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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