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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2018
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug-Security



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CVE-2017-18216 CrOS: Vulnerability reported in Linux kernel

Project Member Reported by vomit.go...@appspot.gserviceaccount.com, Mar 28 2018

Issue description

VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2017-18216
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-18216
  CVSS severity score: 2.1/10.0
  Description:

In fs/ocfs2/cluster/nodemanager.c in the Linux kernel before 4.15, local users can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) because a required mutex is not used.



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.

 

Comment 1 by zsm@chromium.org, Mar 28 2018

Cc: groeck@chromium.org
Labels: Security_Severity-Low Security_Impact-None Pri-3
Owner: zsm@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
The upstream fix is 853bc26a("ocfs2: subsystem.su_mutex is required while accessing the item->ci_parent").

CONFIG_OCFS2_FS does not seem to be set in any of the kernels. Marking as WontFix.

Comment 2 by zsm@chromium.org, Mar 28 2018

Note: This commit is not present in any of the kernels.

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