CVE-2017-2618
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Jul 27, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 1, 2016
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
kernelLinux |
|
References
- [selinux] 20170131 [PATCH] selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattrmailing-list
- DSA-3791vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618
- RHSA-2017:0932vendor-advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125
- RHSA-2017:0933vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0931vendor-advisory
- 96272vdb-entry
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