CVE-2017-8061

high
Published 2017-04-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/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

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.7 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.

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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.9.25-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.9.25-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.9.25-1
debian debiansidfixed4.9.25-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.9.25-1
linux linux-kernel4.9affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.1affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.2affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.3affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.4affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.5affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.6affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.8affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.9affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.10affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.11affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.12affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.13affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.14affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.15affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.16affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.17affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.18affected
linux linux-kernel4.9.19affected
linux linux-kernel4.10affected
linux linux-kernel4.10.1affected
linux linux-kernel4.10.2affected
linux linux-kernel4.10.4affected
linux linux-kernel4.10.5affected
linux linux-kernel4.10.6affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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