vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-17977: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 8, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The Linux kernel 4.14.67 mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) by leveraging root access to execute crafted applications, as demonstrated on CentOS 7.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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