CVE-2017-17741

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-17741
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-18 08:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-04-25 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4082-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
Linux Kernel CVE-2017-17741 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
USN-3619-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1232-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
USN-3617-2: Linux (HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-3619-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-3617-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[PATCH v4] KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio — Linux KVM MISC www.spinics.net Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3620-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4073-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-3617-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-3620-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-3632-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 670269 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1808)
  • 670634 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-2392)
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