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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-27T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.208Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-2618

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T19:29:00.267

Modified: 2023-02-12T23:29:07.010

Link: CVE-2017-2618

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2618 - Bugzilla