CVE-2017-12762

critical
Published 2017-08-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

In /drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c: A user-controlled buffer is copied into a local buffer of constant size using strcpy without a length check which can cause a buffer overflow. This affects the Linux kernel 4.9-stable tree, 4.12-stable tree, 3.18-stable tree, and 4.4-stable tree.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12762

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12762.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9880041/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.13.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.13.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.13.4-1
debian debiansidfixed4.13.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.13.4-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.18.64
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.