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CVE-2017-12190

CVE-2017-12190

EPSS 0.5%CWE-400
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
22 Nov 2017Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition.