VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12762

critical
Published 2017-08-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

In /drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c: A user-controlled buffer is copied into a local buffer of constant size using strcpy without a length check which can cause a buffer overflow. This affects the Linux kernel 4.9-stable tree, 4.12-stable tree, 3.18-stable tree, and 4.4-stable tree.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected 3.18.64
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.13.4-1
sid Fixed 4.13.4-1
forky Fixed 4.13.4-1
bullseye Fixed 4.13.4-1
bookworm Fixed 4.13.4-1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.