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CVE-2017-17741

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.45%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-12-18 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2017-17741
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.45%
Linux

Original NVD 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.

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