CVE-2017-8831 Information

Description

The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value aka a \double fetch\ vulnerability.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540770/30/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99619 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195559 https://github.com/stoth68000/media-tree/commit/354dd3924a2e43806774953de536257548b5002c https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/

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