CVE-2017-9242

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9242
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9242.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9242
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Published
2017-05-27T01:29:02Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:39:38Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The __ip6_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.3 is too late in checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure may occur, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted system calls.

References

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9242.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "4.11.3"
            }
        ]
    }
]