CVE-2017-17853

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect BPF_RSH signed bounds calculations.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4374f256ce8182019353c0c639bb8d0695b4c941Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2Mailing List
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4374f256ce8182019353c0c639bb8d0695b4c941Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4374f256ce8182019353c0c639bb8d0695b4c941Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2Mailing List
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4374f256ce8182019353c0c639bb8d0695b4c941Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 27, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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