PT-2017-17792 · Alt+6 · Alt Linux+5

Published 2017-07-21 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-7542

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.12.3 ALT Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service by leveraging the ability to open a raw socket, resulting in an integer overflow and infinite loop. This is due to a problem in the ip6 find 1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/output core.c.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.12.3, update to version 4.12.3 or later to resolve the issue. For ALT Linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Integer Overflow

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1967

ALT-PU-2018-1991

CESA-2017_2930

CVE-2017-7542

DLA-1099-1

DSA-3927-1

DSA-3945-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_2110-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_2112-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10728-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13704-1

RHSA-2017:2918

RHSA-2017:2930

RHSA-2017:2931

RHSA-2017_2930

RHSA-2017_2931

RHSA-2018:0169

RHSA-2018_0169

SUSE-SU-2017:2286-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2342-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2525-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2908-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2956-1

USN-3583-1

USN-3583-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 787

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6399f1fae4ec29fab5ec76070435555e256ca3a6 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14156 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12192 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16525 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18017 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-0750 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2956-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14051 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2908-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6399f1fae4ec29fab5ec76070435555e256ca3a6 · Patch