CVE-2017-7889

high

Published 2017-04-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The mm subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.2 does not properly enforce the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM protection mechanism, which allows local users to read or write to kernel memory locations in the first megabyte (and bypass slab-allocation access restrictions) via an application that opens the /dev/mem file, related to arch/x86/mm/init.c and drivers/char/mem.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.9.25-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.9.25-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.9.25-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.9.25-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.9.25-1`
debian	8.0	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
linux-kernel		affected	`3.2.91`

References

CWEs

CWE-732

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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