CVE-2017-1000377

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the size of the default stack guard page on PAX Linux (originally from GRSecurity but shipped by other Linux vendors), specifically the default stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects PAX Linux Kernel versions as of June 19, 2017 (specific version information is not available at this time).

Affected products

Linux kernel: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99129
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000377
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99129
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000377
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

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