Security Advisory

CVE-2017-9074

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-05-19 06:25:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:55:21
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 does not consider that the nexthdr field may be associated with an invalid option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted socket and send system calls.