CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-18203

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2018-02-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

The dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.14.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References