{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2017-7472 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-7472 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 May 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-7472 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-7472 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 May 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2017-7472 exists.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7472/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7472/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-7472","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7472/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-7472","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7472","GHSA-77r7-v55r-g5r7","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7472"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local users can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the Linux kernel KEYS subsystem by exploiting keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-404","name":"Improper Resource Shutdown or Release"}],"description":"The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2017-06-07","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2017-06-07","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"42136","stars":null,"title":"Linux Kernel \u003c 4.10.13 - 'keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring' Local Denial of Service"},{"date":"2017-06-08T03:47:57Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/homjxi0e/CVE-2017-7472","stars":0,"title":null}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in Linux kernel before 4.10.13","id":"CVE-2017-7472","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":15,"next":{"headline":"DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.","id":"CVE-2017-7473"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-7471"},"products":["Linux kernel before 4.10.13"],"published":"2017-05-11","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local users can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the Linux kernel KEYS subsystem by exploiting keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7472/"}