CVE-2017-9075 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-9075?

CVE-2017-9075 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 May 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The sctp_v6_create_accept_sk function in net/sctp/ipv6.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles inheritance, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls, a related issue to CVE-2017-8890.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9075?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9075?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-9075 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9075 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9075, GHSA-6pm7-88mf-wj5q, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9075.