CVE-2017-5548

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-02-06

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05a974efa4bdf6e2a150e3f27dc6fcf0a9ad5655
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95710
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416110
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05a974efa4bdf6e2a150e3f27dc6fcf0a9ad5655