CVE-2017-1000405
Public on 2017-11-30
Modified on 2018-02-21
Description
A flaw was found in the patches used to fix the 'dirtycow' vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195). An attacker, able to run local code, can exploit a race condition in transparent huge pages to modify usually read-only huge pages.
Severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2017-12-21 | ALAS-2017-937 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2018-02-20 | ALAS-2018-956 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | kernel | 2018-02-20 | ALAS2-2018-956 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |