VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7277

CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's internal socket data structures or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted system calls, related to net/core/skbuff.c and net/socket.c.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references