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CVE-2017-5547

HIGH

7.8

Description

drivers/hid/hid-corsair.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published2/6/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95709(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416096(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d(cve@mitre.org)

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95709(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416096(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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