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CVE-2018-7757

CVSS v3.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 2.1 (Low)
21% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 50
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Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file.

Weaknesses
CWE-772
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2018-03-08 14:29:00
(6 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-10-03 00:03:26
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.15.7 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.15.7