CVE-2017-16996

Published: Dec 22, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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 register truncation mishandling.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Linux kernel through 4.14.8	affected `Linux kernel through 4.14.8`

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454

x_refsource_MISC

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958

x_refsource_MISC

102267

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2017-16996

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