vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-18232: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2018
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Feb 19, 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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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