CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-18232: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/15/2018
08/29/2019
08/28/2019
05/25/2023
Description
The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 mishandles a mutex within libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-kernel
- centos-upgrade-kernel-rt
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