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CVE-2017-18552
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2019-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
An issue was discovered in net/rds/af_rds.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. There is an out of bounds write and read in the function rds_recv_track_latency.
Affected products
- Linux kernel: before 4.11 — fixed in 4.11
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=780e982905bef61d13496d9af5310bf4af3a64d3
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K02460950
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K02460950?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=780e982905bef61d13496d9af5310bf4af3a64d3
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K02460950
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K02460950?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
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