ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2018-7995

Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 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. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.7
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103356
  2. https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084755
  3. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf
  4. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
  5. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970
  6. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
  7. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
  8. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
  9. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
  10. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
  11. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103356
  12. https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084755
  13. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf
  14. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
  15. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970
  16. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
  17. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
  18. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
  19. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
  20. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188