CVE-2017-14340

Public on 2017-09-15

Modified on 2017-10-26

Description

A flaw was found where the XFS filesystem code mishandles a user-settable inode flag in the Linux kernel prior to 4.14-rc1. This can cause a local denial of service via a kernel panic.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.5

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	kernel	2017-10-26 16:43	ALAS-2017-914

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	5.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	4.9	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD	CVSSv3	5.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-14340 Mitre: CVE-2017-14340 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity