CVE-2017-8070

high

Published 2017-04-23 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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/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.

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	`4.9.13-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.9.13-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.9.13-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.9.13-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.9.13-1`
linux-kernel	4.9	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.1	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.2	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.3	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.4	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.5	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.6	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.8	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.9	affected
linux-kernel	4.9.10	affected

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.