CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-2618
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-27
- 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 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-193, CWE-682
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.9.10)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791 Third Party Advisory