CVE-2018-7995
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 9, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 9, 2018
Description
Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to the check_interval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- DSA-4187vendor-advisory
- USN-3654-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084755
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf
- DSA-4188vendor-advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970
- 103356vdb-entry
- USN-3654-2vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180502 [SECURITY] [DLA 1369-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- USN-3656-1vendor-advisory
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