CVE-2017-7277

Published Mar 28, 2017

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.6
Impact score
9.2
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-125

Configurations