Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.9.0,4.9.72)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005790
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.9.72 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x through 4.9.71 does not check the relationship between pointer values and the BPF stack, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow or invalid memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS Base Scores

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