CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-18216

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-03-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-05
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])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In fs/ocfs2/cluster/nodemanager.c in the Linux kernel before 4.15, local users can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) because a required mutex is not used.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.15)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References