vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-18232: ELSA-2018-3083: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2017
Added
Nov 6, 2018
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles a mutex within libsas. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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