CVE-2017-18203

Description

The dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.3

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3657-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9a41d21dceadf8104812626ef85dc56ee8a60ed

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4154

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103184

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9a41d21dceadf8104812626ef85dc56ee8a60ed

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3