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Debian: CVE-2017-18232: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2018
Added
May 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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