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CVE-2017-18232

Public on 2018-03-15
Modified on 2020-08-24
Description

The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles a mutex within libsas. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2018-04-19 04:44 ALAS-2018-993
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-08-18 20:29 ALAS2-2020-1480

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H