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Tracker / CVE-2017-17712

CVE-2017-17712

High 7.0

The raw_sendmsg() function in net/ipv4/raw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.6 has a race condition in inet->hdrincl that leads to uninitialized stack pointer usage; this allows a local user to execute code and gain privileges.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.52
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.11
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.109
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.74

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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