Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2017-7477

Heap-based buffer overflow in drivers/net/macsec.c in the MACsec module in the Linux kernel through 4.10.12 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the use of a MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1 size in conjunction with the NETIF_F_FRAGLIST feature, leading to an error in the skb_to_sgvec function.

  • Published: Apr 25, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2017-7477
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 4.10 4.10.16
linux / linux_kernel 4.6 4.9.28