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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Remediation Deadline: Sep 30, 2024

CVE-2017-1000253

High
EPSS 54.2%CISA KEVRansomware
Linux/Kernel

Description

Linux kernel contains a position-independent executable (PIE) stack buffer corruption vulnerability in load_elf_ binary() that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges.

EPSS — Exploit Probability

54.2%

Higher than 98.0% of all CVEs

Required Action

This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. For more information, please see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000253

Risk Assessment

CRITICAL
In CISA KEV
High EPSS
Ransomware

Details

Severity
High
EPSS
54.2%
CISA KEV
Yes
Ransomware
Known
Articles
0

Timeline

Published

Sep 9, 2024

Added to KEV

Sep 9, 2024

Remediation Due

Sep 30, 2024

Affected Product

Linux

Kernel

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