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HistoryMay 27, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2017-9242

2017-05-2700:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org
2

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

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.