CVE-2017-2618
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-07-27 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.
See more information about CVE-2017-2618 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2017-3640 | 2017-11-13 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-0933 | 2017-04-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-0933-1 | 2017-04-13 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2017-3640 | 2017-11-13 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (kernel-uek) | OVMSA-2017-0169 | 2017-11-14 |
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