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CVE-2017-5123

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Date: November 2, 2021

Insufficient data validation in waitid allowed an user to escape sandboxes on Linux.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0003/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5123

Url: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=96ca579a1ecc943b75beba58bebb0356f6cc4b51

Url: https://crbug.com/772848

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5123

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-5123

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version linux - 4.13.7-1;linux-yocto - 4.8.26+gitAUTOINC+1c60e003c7_27efc3ba68;linux-zen - 4.13.7-1;linux-hardened - 4.13.7.a-1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	CHANGED
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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