CVE-2017-2618

Name	CVE-2017-2618
Description	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3791-1

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)	4.19.282-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.178-3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.179-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.27-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	(not affected)
linux	source	jessie	3.16.39-1+deb8u1	DSA-3791-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.9.10-1

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Fixed by: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c461cb727d146c9ef2d3e86214f498b78b7d125