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CVE-2018-7757
published 2018-03-08

CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a…

PriorityP419medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.54%
42.3th percentile
Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file.

Affected

8 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 4.15.17-1 (bookworm)linux 4.15.17-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux_kernel<= 4.15.7
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.15.17-14.15.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.15.17-14.15.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.15.17-14.15.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.15.17-14.15.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 3.13.0-153.2033.13.0-153.203
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.4.0-127.1534.4.0-127.153

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv7.1HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.1HIGH
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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