CVE-2017-1000377 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2017-1000377?

CVE-2017-1000377 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the size of the default stack guard page on PAX Linux (originally from GRSecurity but shipped by other Linux vendors), specifically the default stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects PAX Linux Kernel versions as of June 19, 2017 (specific version information is not available at this time).

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1000377?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1000377?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1000377 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-1000377 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1000377 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xw94-39m9-7c49.