Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17712

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-16 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:59:17
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The raw_sendmsg() function in net/ipv4/raw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.6 has a race condition in inet->hdrincl that leads to uninitialized stack pointer usage; this allows a local user to execute code and gain privileges.