CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-10661
High (7.0). EPSS 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.15 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (list corruption or use-after-free) via simultaneous file-descriptor operations that leverage improper might_cancel queueing.
Severity
- EPSS
- 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_for_power_little_endian_update_services_for_sap_solutions
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1e38da300e1e395a15048b0af1e5305bd91402f6
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.15
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100215
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083