{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2017-11-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in mm/madvise.c:madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service",
    "id" : "1551565",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551565"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-835",
  "details" : [ "The madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping.", "The madvise_willneed function in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2018-10-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:3096",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-957.rt56.910.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2018-10-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:2948",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-alt-0:4.14.0-115.el7a"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2018-10-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:3083",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-957.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2019-12-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:4058",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-693.61.1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2019-12-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:4058",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-693.61.1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions",
    "release_date" : "2019-12-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:4058",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-693.61.1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3967",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-862.44.2.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2019-12-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:4057",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-1:3.10.0-693.61.1.rt56.656.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18208\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18208\nhttps://lwn.net/Articles/618064/\nhttps://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-18208",
  "csaw" : false
}