CVE-2017-17862

Publication date

2017-12-23 17:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 ignores unreachable code, even though it would still be processed by JIT compilers. This behavior, also considered an improper branch-pruning logic issue, could possibly be used by local users for denial of service.