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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-18379 in the critical feed json

In the Linux kernel before 4.14, an out of boundary access happened in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c.

published 2019-07-27 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-9495

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel before 4.14, an out of boundary access happened in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.14
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.14.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18379

  • 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-azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1013.13~16.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18379

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-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +5 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_29 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 +3 more 1-4.3.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_18 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS 8-2.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_19 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS 8-2.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_20 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS 7-2.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_21 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS 6-2.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1

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-2017-18379 updated cvss 7.0

kernel: out of bound access in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c

  • 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-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 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

2.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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