Published: 27/12/2017 Updated: 24/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 4.14.8 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.

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kernel/bpf/verifierc in the Linux kernel through 4148 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 ...

It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifierc in the Linux kernel before 4149 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 ...

CWE-119 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/179d1c5602997fef5a940c6ddcf31212cbfebd14 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=179d1c5602997fef5a940c6ddcf31212cbfebd14 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-17855 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-17855

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