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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5547 Detail

Description

drivers/hid/hid-corsair.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6 CVE, MITRE Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95709 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416096 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6d104af38b570d37aa32a5803b04c354f8ed513d CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-5547
NVD Published Date:
02/06/2017
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE