CVE-2017-2618 Information

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:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96272 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0931 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0932 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0933 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125 https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=148588165923772&w=2 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3791

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5