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CVE-2017-2618
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-27T19:29:00.267 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:31.210

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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