CVE-2017-8890

Description

The inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the accept system call.

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/657831ffc38e30092a2d5f03d385d710eb88b09a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98562

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=657831ffc38e30092a2d5f03d385d710eb88b09a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3