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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-18232): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-18232): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/15/2018
Created
11/16/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1056-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1060-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1096-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1124-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1128-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-powerpc-e500mc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-powerpc-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-powerpc64-emb
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-166-powerpc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mc-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smp-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-emb
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-emb-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smp-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial

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