cve-2017-2618
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-27 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:02
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791Third Party Advisory
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Linux kernel Version: 4.9.10
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