CVE-2018-7480 (NVD)

2018-02-25

The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Linux_kernel
Type Double Free (CWE-415)
First patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9b54d816e00425c3a517514e0d677bb3cec49258
Patches http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b54d816e00425c3a517514e0d677bb3cec49258
Relevant file/s ./block/blk-cgroup.c (modified, +1, -3)
Links • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188

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