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CVE-2017-14051

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2017-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An integer overflow in the qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom_ctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by leveraging root access.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.12.10

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100571
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194061
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9929625/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100571
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194061
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9929625/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

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