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CVE-2017-8831

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2017-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.11.5

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540770/30/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99619
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195559
• https://github.com/stoth68000/media-tree/commit/354dd3924a2e43806774953de536257548b5002c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540770/30/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99619
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195559
• https://github.com/stoth68000/media-tree/commit/354dd3924a2e43806774953de536257548b5002c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/

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