vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-18216: ELSA-2021-9473: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 16, 2017
Added
Oct 9, 2021
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

In fs/ocfs2/cluster/nodemanager.c in the Linux kernel before 4.15, local users can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) because a required mutex is not used.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
Title
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