CVE-2017-9074

HIGH Year: 2017
CVSS v3 Score
7.8
High
CVSS v2 Score
7.2
High
Weakness Type
CWE-125
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Vulnerability Description

The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 does not consider that the nexthdr field may be associated with an invalid option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted socket and send system calls.

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