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

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

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/15/2018
Created
05/08/2019
Added
11/06/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ELSA-2018-3083
  • DSA-4187
  • CVE-2017-18232
  • USN-4163-1
  • USN-4163-2

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