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CVE-2017-7477

Published: Apr 25, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in drivers/net/macsec.c in the MACsec module in the Linux kernel through 4.10.12 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the use of a MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1 size in conjunction with the NETIF_F_FRAGLIST feature, leading to an error in the skb_to_sgvec function.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

Linux kernel

affected
Linux kernel

References

1038500
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
RHSA-2017:1615
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2017:1616
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
98014
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID

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