CVE-2017-17741: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.14.7

Published 2017-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.