| Revision Date: | 2017-05-10 | Version: | 1 | | Title: | CVE-2017-8890 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium. | | Description: | The inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the accept system call. It was discovered that a double-free vulnerability existed in the IPv4 stack of the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
| | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2017-8890
| | Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed. AND Package Information
The 'linux' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.13.0-123.172').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-aws' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.4.0-1002.2').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-azure' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1023.24~14.04.1').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it (note: 'end-of-life').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it (note: 'was needed now end-of-life').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it (note: 'end-of-life').
OR The 'linux-lts-xenial' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '4.4.0-83.106~14.04.1').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
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