CVE-2017-2618

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-193CWE-682

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 27, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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