CVE-2017-8067: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.12 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: from 4.9, before 4.9.24 (fixed in 4.9.24); from 4.10, before 4.10.12 (fixed in 4.10.12)

Published 2017-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.