VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel.
Advisory: CVE-2017-14497
Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-14497
CVSS severity score: 7.2/10.0
Description:
The tpacket_rcv function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 mishandles vnet headers, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow, and disk and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.
This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.
Comment 1 by groeck@chromium.org
, Sep 22 2017Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Upstream edbd58be15 ("packet: Don't write vnet header beyond end of buffer"). Only affects chromeos-4.12 (the patch introducing the problem was added after 4.4) and is already fixed there.