VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel.
Advisory: CVE-2017-2634
Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-2634
CVSS severity score: 7.8/10.0
Description:
It was found that the Linux kernel's Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation before 2.6.22.17 used the IPv4-only inet_sk_rebuild_header() function for both IPv4 and IPv6 DCCP connections, which could result in memory corruptions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.
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 28Labels: Security_Severity-High Security_Impact-None Pri-3
Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)