An address corruption flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel built with hardware breakpoint (CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) support. While modifying a h/w breakpoint via 'modify_user_hw_breakpoint' routine, an unprivileged user/process could use this flaw to crash the system kernel resulting in DoS OR to potentially escalate privileges on a the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2018-05-25 18:12 | ALAS-2018-1023 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | kernel | 2018-05-24 18:14 | ALAS2-2018-1023 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |