VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-18232

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 mishandles a mutex within libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.

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