CVE-2018-7757

Name	CVE-2018-7757
Description	Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.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/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1369-1, DSA-4187-1, DSA-4188-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	fixed
	trixie	6.6.15-2	fixed
	sid	6.7.9-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.101-1	DLA-1369-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.56-1	DSA-4187-1
linux	source	stretch	4.9.88-1	DSA-4188-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.15.17-1

Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/4a491b1ab11ca0556d2fda1ff1301e862a2d44c4 (4.16-rc1)