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GSD-2017-2618

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.
Aliases
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}



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