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Tracker / CVE-2017-8797

CVE-2017-8797

High 7.5

The NFSv4 server in the Linux kernel before 4.11.3 does not properly validate the layout type when processing the NFSv4 pNFS GETDEVICEINFO or LAYOUTGET operand in a UDP packet from a remote attacker. This type value is uninitialized upon encountering certain error conditions. This value is used as an array index for dereferencing, which leads to an OOPS and eventually a DoS of knfsd and a soft-lockup of the whole system.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.0 → 4.1.40
linux linux_kernel · 4.11 → 4.11.3
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.70
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.30

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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