CVE-2017-2647

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 31 Mar 2017, 04:26
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 14:02

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.04% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

31 Mar 2017, 04:26
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 14:02
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function in keyring.c.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0HIGHScore: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0HIGHScore: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.04% Percentile: 13%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    ≤ 3.17.8

References (10)