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CVE-2017-17856
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-27T17:08:20.297 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:11:46.913

Summary

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the lack of stack-pointer alignment enforcement.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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