CVE-2017-17852 - log back

CVE-2017-17852 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Medium
Remote
+ Local
Type
+ Denial of service
Description
+ It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging mishandling of 32-bit ALU ops.
References
+ https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454
+ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
+ https://git.kernel.org/linus/468f6eafa6c44cb2c5d8aad35e12f06c240a812a
Notes
+ Workaround by disabling unprivileged bpf:
+ sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1