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CVE-2017-15126
CVE-2017-15126
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.100000381469727 HIGH
A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/userfaultfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6. The issue is related to the handling of fork failure when dealing with event messages. Failure to fork correctly can lead to a situation where a fork event will be removed from an already freed list of events with userfaultfd_ctx_put().
EPSS 4.08% · 90.3th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
8.100000381469727
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
4.08%
90.3th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | linux-azure | 0, 4.11.0-1016.16, 4.11.0-1011.11 |
Timeline
- Jan 14, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 28, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 3, 2022 EPSS Score
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- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 13, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15126 third-party-advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=384632e67e0829deb8015ee6ad916b180049d252 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15126 third-party-advisory