Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-17855  

It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper use of pointers in place of scalars.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper use of pointers in place of scalars.

AVG-574 linux-hardened 4.14.7.a-1 4.14.11.a-1 High Fixed FS#56832

AVG-571 linux-zen 4.14.7-1 4.14.11-1 High Fixed FS#56832

AVG-560 linux-lts 4.9.73-1 4.9.74-1 High Not affected FS#56832

AVG-552 linux 4.14.7-1 4.14.11-1 High Fixed FS#56832

05 Jan 2018 ASA-201801-4 AVG-574 linux-hardened High multiple issues

05 Jan 2018 ASA-201801-3 AVG-571 linux-zen High multiple issues

05 Jan 2018 ASA-201801-1 AVG-552 linux High multiple issues

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
https://git.kernel.org/linus/179d1c5602997fef5a940c6ddcf31212cbfebd14

Workaround by disabling unprivileged bpf:
sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1