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Debian: CVE-2017-18218: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-18218: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/05/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2018
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

In drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13, local users can cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging differences in skb handling between hns_nic_net_xmit_hw and hns_nic_net_xmit.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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