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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-18203: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2018
Added
May 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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