CVE-2017-17712

Publication date

2017-12-16 01:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The raw_sendmsg() function in net/ipv4/raw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.6 has a race condition in inet->hdrincl that leads to uninitialized stack pointer usage; this allows a local user to execute code and gain privileges.