# CVE-2017-7277: The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM\_TIMESTAMPING\_OPT\_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensi

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-03-28 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 mishandles the SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's internal socket data structures or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted system calls, related to net/core/skbuff.c and net/socket.c.

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## References

- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740636/
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/15/485
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/740639/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97141
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ef1b2869447411ad3ef91ad7d4891a83c1a509a
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8605330aac5a5785630aec8f64378a54891937cc

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