CVE-2017-7558

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

3.61% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 89.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Published

2018-07-26 15:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 16:04Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-04-05

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Medium (CVSS 5.1)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

90ece3726938318f2ea4ccf3b4ae036860254f0807f55579282b4776d20f2af3

• marc.info[linux-netdev] 20170823 [PATCH net] sctp: Avoid out-of-bounds reads from address storagehttps://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=150348777122761&w=2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2918https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2918vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2931https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2931vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.securityfocus.com100466http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100466vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• seclists.org[oss-security] 20170823 CVE-2017-7558: Linux kernel: sctp: out-of-bounds read in inet_diag_msg_sctp{,l}addr_fill() and sctp_get_sctp_info()http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/338mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7558x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securitytracker.com1039221http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039221vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.debian.orgDSA-3981https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2930https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2930vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT