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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2017-16912 json

The "get_pipe()" function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 allows attackers to…

published 2018-01-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-8082

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The "get_pipe()" function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.1.49
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.14.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16912

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-157.207
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-119.143
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-1016.16
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1054.63
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1014.14~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-24.26~16.04.1
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1020.25
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1013.13~16.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16912

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.24.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.24.1
  • kernel-rt_trace SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.24.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.24.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.22.1
  • kernel-pae SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.22.1
  • kernel-xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.22.1
  • kernel-syms SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1309-1SUSE-SU-2018:1172-1SUSE-SU-2018:1080-1SUSE-SU-2018:0986-1SUSE-SU-2018:0848-1SUSE-SU-2018:0834-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-16912 updated cvss 5.3

kernel: Out-of-bounds read in usbip/stub_rx.c:get_pipe() allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted USB over IP packet

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

  • Flexera Software LLC Linux Kernel

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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