CVE-2017-7472
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.3%
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.
- Affected
- Linux kernel before 4.10.13
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 5.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - EPSS
- 2.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 83rd percentile
- Published
- 2017-05-11
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- homjxi0e/CVE-2017-74720★ · 2017-06-08
ExploitDB entries (1)
Security advisories
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.13
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9f838d104fed6f…
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/11/1
- torvalds/linux/commit/c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271b
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034862
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442086
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98422