CVSS 3.0
7.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-7277
The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's internal socket data structures or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted system calls, related to net/core/skbuff.c and net/socket.c.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97141
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc