CVE-2017-15121
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
A non-privileged user is able to mount a fuse filesystem on RHEL 6 or 7 and crash a system if an application punches a hole in a file that does not end aligned to a page boundary.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Red Hat Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.11.5-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.11.5-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.11.5-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.11.5-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.11.5-1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102128
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520893
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K42142782?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15121.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15121
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.