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CVE-2017-2618
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)…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.46%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (8)
- [selinux] 20170131 [PATCH] selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3791 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2618 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0932 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0933 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0931 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 96272 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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