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CVE-2017-18255 (GCVE-0-2017-18255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-31 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:13
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Summary
The perf_cpu_time_max_percent_handler function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large value, as demonstrated by an incorrect sample-rate calculation.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103607 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3696-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1572e45a… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2018-03-31 00:00
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2017-18255",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2017-18255.json",
      "version": "18"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.