CVE-2017-18551

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 22
Modified
Published: 19 Aug 2019, 01:51
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 21:28

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
27/100
CVSS Score
6.7 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.13% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Aug 2019, 01:51
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 21:28
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15. There is an out of bounds write in the function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.13%• Percentile: 32%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

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

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 4.14.15

  • opensuse•leap

    15.0 | 15.1

References (5)