CVE-2017-1000364

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 64
Modified
Published: 19 Jun 2017, 16:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 22:00

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.4 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
3.09% LOW
3% probability -6.51%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Jun 2017, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 22:00
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier (the stackguard page was introduced in 2010).

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.4CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 3.09%• Percentile: 87%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 4.11.5

References (25)