vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2017-9074: K61223103: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-9074

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 19, 2017
Added
Mar 17, 2018
Modified
Aug 23, 2024

Description

The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 does not consider that the nexthdr field may be associated with an invalid option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted socket and send system calls.

Solution

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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