Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 27
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
Also affects: Enterprise Linux 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, Debian Linux 8.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
6GHSA▶
GHSA-hpw2-j46j-hpv2: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4↗2022-05-13
OSV▶
CVE-2017-2618: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4↗2018-07-27
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-2618: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4↗2018-07-27
📋Vendor Advisories
5Debian▶
CVE-2017-2618: linux - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes o...↗2017