CVE-2017-8062

kernel: dw2102.c interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 15, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.4 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified