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CVE-2017-8070
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-04-23T05:59:00.553 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:25:44.043

Summary

drivers/net/usb/catc.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.11 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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