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CVE-2017-2618

MEDIUM
Published 2018-07-27T19:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.0
5.5
/10
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2023.03.01
0.001
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-01-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.292
Higher than 29.2% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Linux

kernel

Affected Versions:

4.9.10

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE

GHSA-hpw2-j46j-hpv2

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2618
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933
WEB https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2618
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419916
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618
WEB https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125
WEB https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2
WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 13, 2022, Modified: May 13, 2022

References

https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272
Published: 2018-07-27T19:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.208Z
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