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CVE-2017-17741
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory,…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.47%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 59% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- USN-3617-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3619-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-4082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3617-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180107 [SECURITY] [DLA 1232-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3632-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 102227 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-3620-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg160796.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4073 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3617-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3620-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3619-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-8893 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-17741)Record last updated .