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CVE-2017-17853 (GCVE-0-2017-17853)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-23 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:06
VLAI
Summary
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 incorrect BPF_RSH signed bounds calculations.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-12-22 00:00
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