VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7645

high
Published 2017-04-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.10.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c, fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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 3.2.89
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.9.25-1
sid Fixed 4.9.25-1
forky Fixed 4.9.25-1
bullseye Fixed 4.9.25-1
bookworm Fixed 4.9.25-1
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —

References

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.