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CVE-2017-18224

Published: Mar 12, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.15, fs/ocfs2/aops.c omits use of a semaphore and consequently has a race condition for access to the extent tree during read operations in DIRECT mode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) by modifying a certain e_cpos field.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e4c56d41eef5595035872a2ec5a483f42e8917f

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e4c56d41eef5595035872a2ec5a483f42e8917f

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

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