CVE-2017-18261
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18261
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18261.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18261
- Downstream
- Published
- 2018-04-19T08:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace, PREEMPTTRACER, and FUNCTIONGRAPHTRACER.
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