CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-18200

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The f2fs implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.14 mishandles reference counts associated with f2fs_wait_discard_bios calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG), as demonstrated by fstrim.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.13)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References