CVE-2017-18218 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2017-18218 PUBLISHED

In drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13, local users can cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging differences in skb handling between hns_nic_net_xmit_hw and hns_nic_net_xmit.

EPSS 0.10% · 27.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.10%

27.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	linux-hwe	0, 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1, 4.8.0-39.42~16.04.1

Timeline

Mar 5, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18218 third-party-advisory
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=27463ad99f738ed93c7c8b3e2e5bc8c4853a2ff2 third-party-advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/27463ad99f738ed93c7c8b3e2e5bc8c4853a2ff2 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18218 third-party-advisory

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