CVE-2017-14497

Publication date

2017-09-15 18:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The tpacket_rcv function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 mishandles vnet headers, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow, and disk and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.