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CVE-2017-5548

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.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 caus…

Impact

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
Versions 4.9, 4.9.1, 4.9.2, 4.9.3, 4.9.4, 4.9.5

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