CVE-2017-9242

Publication date

2017-05-27 00:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The __ip6_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.3 is too late in checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure may occur, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted system calls.