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CVE-2017-14497

Published: Sep 15, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

The tpacket_rcv function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 mishandles vnet headers, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow, and disk and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150394500728906&w=2

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492593

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[oss-security] 20170918 CVE-2017-14497: Linux kernel: packet: buffer overflow in tpacket_rcv()

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-01-01

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edbd58be15a957f6a760c4a514cd475217eb97fd

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https://marc.info/?t=150394517700001&r=1&w=2

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=edbd58be15a957f6a760c4a514cd475217eb97fd

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vdb-entry

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