SB2018030808 - Denial of service in Linux Kernel
Published: March 8, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018030808
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10021)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper handling of analog telephone adapter (ATA) device commands by the drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c source code file. A local attacker can execute ATA device commands to trigger certain failure conditions, trigger an ata qc leak and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.