Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16939

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-24 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:59
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted SO_RCVBUF setsockopt system call in conjunction with XFRM_MSG_GETPOLICY Netlink messages.