CVE-2017-5548: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 4.9 only; version 4.9.1 only; version 4.9.2 only; version 4.9.3 only; version 4.9.4 only; version 4.9.5 only

Published 2017-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.