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F5 Networks: K42142782 (CVE-2017-15121): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-15121

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F5 Networks: K42142782 (CVE-2017-15121): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-15121

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/19/2018
Modified
02/27/2023

Description

A non-privileged user is able to mount a fuse filesystem on RHEL 6 or 7 and crash a system if an application punches a hole in a file that does not end aligned to a page boundary.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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