CVE-2017-6874

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 High 7
Description
Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-6874
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-03-14T09:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-03-16T01:59:02
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.10.2
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 6.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96856
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6874
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6874
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:47:09 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 14:38:48 2017-03-14T09:59Z 2017-03-14T09:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 14:38:48 2017-03-16T01:59:02 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 14:38:48 Modified Vulnerability Status updated