Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1530273
CVE-2017-17856 kernel: bpf/verifier.c allows local users to cause a denial of service by leveraging the lack of stack-pointer alignment enforcement
Last modified: 2018-08-28 18:31:00 EDT
kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the lack of stack-pointer alignment enforcement. Upstream patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5ec6ae161d72f01411169a938fa5f8baea16e8f References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1530279]
Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.