vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-7995: ELSA-2019-4315: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 9, 2018
Added
Jan 4, 2019
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to the check_interval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant
A race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to the check_interval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number> directory.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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