VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-2618

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.46%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-27
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

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error
  • CWE-682: Incorrect Calculation

Primary references