CVE-2017-17741

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17741DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17741
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 25
Modified
Published: 18 Dec 2017, 08:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 20:59

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.47% LOW
0% probability +0.40%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Dec 2017, 08:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 20:59
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.47%• Percentile: 40%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • debian•linux

    < 4.14.7-1 | < 4.14.7-1 | < 4.14.7-1 | < 4.14.7-1

  • ubuntu•linux

    < 3.13.0-144.193 | < 4.4.0-119.143

  • ubuntu•linux-aws

    < 4.4.0-1016.16 | < 4.4.0-1054.63

  • ubuntu•linux-azure

    < 4.13.0-1014.17

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.15

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-fips

    < 4.4.0-1008.10

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp

    < 4.13.0-1012.16

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gke

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-hwe

    < 4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1

  • ubuntu•linux-hwe-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-intel-iot-realtime

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-kvm

    < 4.4.0-1020.25

  • ubuntu•linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-lts-xenial

    < 4.4.0-119.143~14.04.1

  • ubuntu•linux-oem

    < 4.13.0-1022.24

  • ubuntu•linux-raspi-realtime

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-raspi2

    < 4.4.0-1086.94 | all

  • ubuntu•linux-realtime

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-riscv

    all | all

  • ubuntu•linux-snapdragon

    < 4.4.0-1088.93

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 4.14.7

References (25)