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LIN10-3846 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2017-18261

Created: May 2, 2018    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: May 20, 2018
Found In Version: 10.17.41.1
Fix Version: 10.17.41.8
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 17
Component/s: Kernel

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18261

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