CVE-2017-2618 (GCVE-0-2017-2618)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-27 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:02
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
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