UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14497

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14497

    Published: 15 Sept 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-14497

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14497, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=edbd58be15a957f6a760c4a514cd475217eb97fd, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edbd58be15a957f6a760c4a514cd475217eb97fd, https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150394500728906&w=2, https://marc.info/?t=150394517700001&r=1&w=2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14497

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-azure

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.13.0-1005.7

    Affected versions

    4.11.0-1009.9
    4.11.0-1011.11
    4.11.0-1013.13
    4.11.0-1014.14
    4.11.0-1015.15
    4.11.0-1016.16

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High