cve-2018-7757
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-08 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:37
Severity ?
Summary
Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4a491b1ab11ca0556d2fda1ff1301e862a2d44c4Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103348Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a491b1ab11ca0556d2fda1ff1301e862a2d44c4Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
Impacted products
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