Bug 1558066 (CVE-2017-18232) - CVE-2017-18232 kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service
Summary: CVE-2017-18232 kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-18232
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1558067 1558068 1560185 1560186 1560187 1560188 1560189
Blocks: 1558070
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Reported: 2018-03-19 14:36 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:37 UTC (History)
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The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles a mutex within libsas. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:18:00 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3083 0 None None None 2018-10-30 07:32:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3096 0 None None None 2018-10-30 07:38:30 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-19 14:36:02 UTC 
The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles a mutex within libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0558f33c06bb910e2879e355192227a8e8f0219d
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-19 14:36:37 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1558067]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-03-27 19:29:27 UTC 
kernel-4.15.12-201.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:32:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:38:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3096 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
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