CVE-2018-7757

kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 8, 2018

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory exhaustion) via multiple read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption