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CVE-2017-7277

Published: Mar 28, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's internal socket data structures or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted system calls, related to net/core/skbuff.c and net/socket.c.

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

References

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740636/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/15/485

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740639/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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