CVE-2017-17854

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
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: 2017-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging unrestricted integer values for pointer arithmetic.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Linux kernel: from 4.14 before 4.14.9 — fixed in 4.14.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb7f0f989ca7de1153bd128a40a71709e339fa03
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bb7f0f989ca7de1153bd128a40a71709e339fa03
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb7f0f989ca7de1153bd128a40a71709e339fa03
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bb7f0f989ca7de1153bd128a40a71709e339fa03

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