CVE-2018-17977

Name	CVE-2018-17977
Description	The Linux kernel 4.14.67 mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP packets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) by leveraging root access to execute crafted applications, as demonstrated on CentOS 7.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.216-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.90-1	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	6.7.12-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Needs major rework on protocol level to fix. Exploitable (likely) only with CAP_NET_ADMIN.