CVE-2017-2618

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Jul 27, 2018 (Jul 27, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: linux debian redhat
Products: linux kernel, debian linux, enterprise linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, enterprise linux workstation
Weakness: CWE-193, CWE-682
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.5%)

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