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CVE-2017-14051 (GCVE-0-2017-14051)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-31 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:13
VLAI
Summary
An integer overflow in the qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom_ctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by leveraging root access.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194061 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100571 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9929625/ x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2017-08-30 00:00
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