Security Advisory

CVE-2018-17977

4.4
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The Linux kernel 4.14.67 mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) by leveraging root access to execute crafted applications, as demonstrated on CentOS 7.
Published Date October 8, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory