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cvelistRedhatCVELIST:CVE-2017-12190
HistoryNov 22, 2017 - 6:00 p.m.

CVE-2017-12190

2017-11-2218:00:00
CWE-400
redhat
www.cve.org
3

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

28.1%

The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux kernel through v4.14-rc5",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Linux kernel through v4.14-rc5"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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