Bug 628402 (CVE-2017-10662)

Summary:	Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2017-10662)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	D'juan McDonald (domhnall) <flopwiki>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	security-kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-10662
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-08-20 18:06:18 UTC

From $URL:

The sanity_check_raw_super function in fs/f2fs/super.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.1 does not validate the segment count, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2022-03-26 00:10:44 UTC

Fix in 4.9.28, 4.12