CVE-2017-8068 Information

Description

drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.11 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98000 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98008 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5593523f968bc86d42a035c6df47d5e0979b5ace https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5593523f968bc86d42a035c6df47d5e0979b5ace

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8