VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-18218

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-05
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13, local users can cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging differences in skb handling between hns_nic_net_xmit_hw and hns_nic_net_xmit.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-416: Use After Free

Primary references