Bug 1553911 (CVE-2018-7995) - CVE-2018-7995 kernel: Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in cpu/mcheck/mce.c
Summary: CVE-2018-7995 kernel: Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-7995
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1553918
Blocks: 1553913
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Reported: 2018-03-09 21:04 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-06-10 15:14 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2018-03-22 11:47:45 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-03-09 21:04:02 UTC 
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.

References:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970

An upsteam patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-03-09 21:20:12 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1553918]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-03-16 16:18:33 UTC 
kernel-4.15.9-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Vladis Dronov 2018-03-22 11:42:57 UTC 
Notes:

Since only root can write to the mentioned sysfs variables, the issue is not a security flaw.
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