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Vulnerability CVE-2017-18261
Published: 2018-04-19
| Description: |
The arch_timer_reg_read_stable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace, PREEMPT_TRACER, and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER. |
Type:
CWE-835 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.9/10 |
6.9/10 |
3.9/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
None |
Complete |
References: |
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=adb4f11e0a8f4e29900adb2b7af28b6bbd5c1fa4
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/adb4f11e0a8f4e29900adb2b7af28b6bbd5c1fa4
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