Exploitation evidence
Not listed in the latest downloaded CISA KEV catalog. This does not establish an absence of exploitation.
KEV checked 13 Nov 2026, 00:20 Jerusalem · Original catalog ↗Reported products and versions
n/a / n/a
Default status: Not specified
- affected: through 4.4
Fixes and workarounds
No explicit solution text in the downloaded CVE record. Consult the vendor advisory; unaffected version ranges are shown above as reported, not inferred as a patch recommendation.
Sources and related reporting
CVE Program record ↗ · Download tracked evidence as JSON
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45058/
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/95a762e2c8c942780948091f8f2a4f32fce1ac6f
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3633-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102288
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44298/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45010/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3523-2/
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=95a762e2c8c942780948091f8f2a4f32fce1ac6f
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=a6132276ab5dcc38b3299082efeb25b948263adb
Monitored source mentions
Shared CVE identifiers link source mentions; they do not establish that the reports describe the same incident.
Reviewed Egret reports
Observed change timeline
History begins when Egret first downloads each source. It is not the complete upstream CVE history.
12 Nov 2026, 18:20 Jerusalem · EPSS observation updated
Stored EPSS snapshot at this observation.
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}12 Nov 2026, 12:20 Jerusalem · EPSS observation updated
Stored EPSS snapshot at this observation.
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}12 Nov 2026, 12:20 Jerusalem · CVE Program record changed
Stored CNA snapshot at this observation.
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