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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7308: in Alpine 3.4

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7308: in Alpine 3.4

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/29/2017
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
11/08/2019

Description

The packet_set_ring function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 does not properly validate certain block-size data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer signedness error and out-of-bounds write), or gain privileges (if the CAP_NET_RAW capability is held), via crafted system calls.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-grsec

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