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CVE-2017-18551

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Date: August 18, 2019

An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15. There is an out of bounds write in the function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.7

Related Resources (10)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18551

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18551

Url: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.15

Url: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K48073202?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18551

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18551

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html

Url: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=89c6efa61f5709327ecfa24bff18e57a4e80c7fa

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-18551

Severity Score

6.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.7
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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