UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7277

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7277

    Published: 28 Mar 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7277
    Aliases:
    USN-3314-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7277, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc, https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/15/485, https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740636/, https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740639/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3314-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7277

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-azure

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.15.0-1023.24~14.04.1

    Affected versions

    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
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