CVE-2017-18232

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-03-15 04:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0558f33c06bb910e2879e355192227a8e8f0219d

Patch, Vendor Advisory

103423

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2018:3083

RHSA-2018:3096

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0558f33c06bb910e2879e355192227a8e8f0219d

Patch, Third Party Advisory

USN-4163-1

USN-4163-2

DSA-4187

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