CVE-2017-2618CWE-193

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10

Medium · published July 27, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00459 · 38.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-193 · Off-by-one Error
Published
2018-07-27T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUL 19:00Z
    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10
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