Vulnerability: TCP Stack Information Disclosure and Denial of Service in Linux Kernel

CVE-2017-7277 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's internal socket data structures or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted system calls, related to net/core/skbuff.c and net/socket.c.

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