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CVE-2017-7277
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-28T06:59:00.143 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:23:59.587

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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