UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7895

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7895

    Published: 28 Apr 2017Last Modified: 26 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7895
    Aliases:
    USN-3312-1
    USN-3312-2
    USN-3314-1

    Summary:

    Details: The NFSv2 and NFSv3 server implementations in the Linux kernel through 4.10.13 lack certain checks for the end of a buffer, which allows remote attackers to trigger pointer-arithmetic errors or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted requests, related to fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7895, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3314-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3312-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3312-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3359-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3361-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7895

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-125.174

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    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