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Tracker / CVE-2017-2618

CVE-2017-2618

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.9.10
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation

Analysis

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