CVE-2017-10661
Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.15 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (list corruption or use-after-free) via simultaneous
02 Description
Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.15 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (list corruption or use-after-free) via simultaneous
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 13.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-08-19 18:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 17:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-06-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3008d450563ca1e6e5e7f82f957a73d850f5c32f4a2e144a2943853c2e13c894
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3083https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
- www.securityfocus.com100215http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100215
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1481136
- www.kernel.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.15
- www.debian.orgDSA-3981http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
- source.android.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01
- github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1e38da300e1e395a15048b0af1e5305bd91402f6
- www.exploit-db.com43345https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43345/
- git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1e38da300e1e395a15048b0af1e5305bd91402f6
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3096https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:4058https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4058
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:4057https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4057
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0036https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- linux Fixed in 4.9.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- linux Fixed in 4.9.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- linux Fixed in 4.9.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- linux Fixed in 3.13.0-135.184
- linux-lts-xenial Fixed in 4.4.0-79.100~14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- linux Fixed in 4.4.0-79.100
- linux-aws Fixed in 4.4.0-1018.27
- linux-gke Fixed in 4.4.0-1014.14
- linux-hwe Fixed in 4.10.0-32.36~16.04.1
- linux-raspi2 Fixed in 4.4.0-1057.64
- linux-snapdragon Fixed in 4.4.0-1059.63
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- linux-azure-fde No fix yet
- linux-gke No fix yet
- linux-raspi2 No fix yet
- linux-riscv No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- linux-intel-iot-realtime No fix yet
- linux-realtime No fix yet
- linux-riscv No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- linux-azure-6.11 No fix yet
- linux-gcp-6.11 No fix yet
- linux-hwe-6.11 No fix yet
- linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 No fix yet
- linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- linux-azure-fde-5.15 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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