CVE-2018-7757

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7757
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7757.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7757
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Published
2018-03-08T14:29:00.567Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:44:26.654804Z
Severity
  • 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

Memory leak in the sassmpgetphyevents function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sasexpander.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sasphy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sasphy/phy-1:0:12/invaliddword_count file.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.15.7"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7757.json"