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CVE-2017-18379

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.14, an out of boundary access happened in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 4.10 before 4.14 — fixed in 4.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c319d3a144d4b8f1ea2047fd614d2149b68f889
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c319d3a144d4b8f1ea2047fd614d2149b68f889
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K74012105
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K74012105?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c319d3a144d4b8f1ea2047fd614d2149b68f889
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c319d3a144d4b8f1ea2047fd614d2149b68f889
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K74012105
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K74012105?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

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