CVE-2018-7757

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.

Score
CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2018-03-08
Last modified
2024-08-05
Weaknesses
CWE-772

Affected products

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