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CVE-2018-7995
medium
Description
Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() 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 check_interval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html