{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7533 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2017-7533 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Aug 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-2017-7533 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-7533 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7533 in the wild and no public exploit code.\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-2017-7533/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7533/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-7533","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7533/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-7533","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7533","GHSA-679h-84ch-2wh9","RHSA-2017:2473","RHSA-2017:2585","RHSA-2017:2770","RHSA-2017:2869","SUSE-SU-2017:2041-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2042-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2069-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2074-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2114-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7533"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in the Linux kernel's fsnotify implementation to gain privileges or cause denial of service via memory 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