CVE-2018-7995
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7995
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7995.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7995
- Downstream
- Published
- 2018-03-09T15:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Race condition in the storeintwithrestart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to the checkinterval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant
- Database specific
{ "isDisputed": true }- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103356
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084755
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188